Approximately six months ago, former Director of General Education and Fox School of Business Professor Terry Halbert approached  her bosses, former Provost Lisa Staiano-Coico and then-Deputy Provost and Dean of University College Richard Englert, about some much needed time off.

Halbert has been working on the growing two-year-old GenEd curriculum for the past five years in her position as GenEd director. The university granted her an administrative one-year leave, allowing Halbert a break and time to return to her scholarly work of researching and writing. A replacement for Halbert will be announced at the end of next week, Englert said. The replacement is an internal university hire whom both Halbert and Englert praised.

“It was such a daunting task to totally remake our Core Curriculum, and Terry just did an outstanding job in planning for the implementation and in the implementation,” said Englert, who is now serving as the interim senior vice president and provost while the university conducts a search for permanent replacement for Staiano-Coico. Staiano-Coico is now the president of the City University of New York.

“I’m very grateful to Temple for giving me the chance to do something important, but also the chance to take a time out,” Halbert said, adding that she is looking forward to recharging and then channeling her energy into other research during her time off.

Look for a more extensive profile of Halbert and the future of the GenEd program on The Temple News website this Monday.