CDM Annual Reports
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LETTER FROM THE DEAN
As I write this letter during the beginning of the 2021–22 academic year, we have started to welcome the majority of our students to campus— many for the very first time, and some for the first time in a year and a half. It has been wonderful to be together, in-person, again. Four quarters of learning and working remotely was challenging, to be sure, but I have been consistently amazed by the resilience, innovation, and hard work of our students, faculty, and staff, even in the most difficult of circumstances. This annual report, covering the 2020–21 academic year—one that was entirely virtual—highlights many of those examples: from a second place national ranking by our Security Daemons team to hosting a blockbuster virtual screenwriting conference with top talent; from gaming grants helping us reach historically excluded youth to alumni successes across our three schools. Recently, I announced that, after 40 years at DePaul and 15 years as the Dean of CDM, I will be stepping down from the deanship at the end of the 2021–22 academic year. I began my tenure at DePaul in 1981 as an assistant professor, with the founding of the Department of Computer Science, joining seven faculty members who were leaving the mathematics department for this new venture.
It has been amazing to watch our college grow during that time. We now have more than 40 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, over 22,000 college alumni, and a catalog of nationally ranked programs. And we plan to keep going.
If there is anything I’ve learned at CDM, it’s that a lot can be accomplished in a year (as this report shows), and I’m committed to working hard and continuing the progress we’ve made together in 2021–22.
David Miller
Dean
Publication Date
2021
Publisher
DePaul University
City
Chicago
Disciplines
Computer and Systems Architecture | Computer Engineering | Data Storage Systems | Digital Circuits | Digital Communications and Networking | Film and Media Studies | Film Production | Hardware Systems | Other Computer Engineering | Other Film and Media Studies | Visual Studies
Recommended Citation
DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, "Annual Report 2020-2021" (2021). CDM Annual Reports. 1.
https://via.library.depaul.edu/cdmannual/1
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Computer and Systems Architecture Commons, Data Storage Systems Commons, Digital Circuits Commons, Digital Communications and Networking Commons, Film Production Commons, Hardware Systems Commons, Other Computer Engineering Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Visual Studies Commons