College of Liberal Arts Dean Gerry Riposa will step down from office in June 2012, according to Cal State Long Beach Provost Donald Para.
Para announced the news in an email to CLA faculty and staff earlier this month and again during a CLA on-campus retreat last weekend.
Riposa, who has been dean since 2006, will continue to work with CSULB as a faculty member of the university’s political science department.
“Gerry has been an excellent colleague, a real team player, and a thoughtful and effective member of the Senior Management Council and Council of Deans,” Para wrote in the email.
Riposa started teaching political science as an assistant professor for the department in 1989 and was named chairman of the department in 1994.
In 2002, he was appointed associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Riposa said Wednesday he was not prepared to make a statement regarding the conclusion of his time working as dean.
The dean’s duties include “directing and coordinating the instructional, curricular and support program of the college, including academic and professional programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels,” according to the university relations and development website.
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