2024-11-14T21:59:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149042568/dean-frederick-steiner-leaves-ut-austin-for-penn-design-due-to-new-campus-carry-gun-law Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-02-26T13:36:00-05:00 >2024-01-23T19:16:08-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/io/ioifpde6qmc1izlq.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Frederick Steiner's deanship at Penn Design will begin on July 1, succeeding Marilyn Jordan Taylor. In a piece published in&nbsp;<em><a href="http://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/25/ut-architecture-dean-cites-campus-carry-reason-dep/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Texas Tribune</a>,&nbsp;</em>Steiner reportedly rejected offers for positions at other schools in the past, but was provoked to reconsider in light of a new law allowing concealed guns in UT Austin's campus buildings, going into effect August 1.</p><p>Previously, concealed handguns were legally allowed on campus, but not inside buildings.&nbsp;"I would have never applied for another job if not for&nbsp;<a href="https://campuscarry.utexas.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">campus carry</a>," says Steiner as quoted in&nbsp;<em>The Texas Tribune.</em>&nbsp;"I felt that I was going to be responsible for managing a law I didn't believe in." He adds:&nbsp;"Penn is a great institution and I am very happy to go to Penn, but I was approached ... and, if it wouldn't have been for campus carry, I wouldn't have considered it."</p><p>Academics and other members of the UT Austin community are concerned that such <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/24/university-of-houston-faculty-campus-carry-law-texas-guns" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">campus carry laws will result in a "brain drain"</a>, scaring away potential applicants and instil...</p>