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Sygielski to change a handful of administrative positions
New positions to be created, 11 other administrators to keep interim jobs another year
The Advocate
MHCC President John Sygielski is planning to shuffle administrative positions through July, according to an all-staff email he sent out Monday.
Vice President of College Advancement Cassie McVeety said Wednesday, “We’re looking at filling positions from a point of openness. This is Dr. Ski wanting to be open about any personnel changes at the college.”
Sygielski agreed with McVeety’s comments, and said he is “always interested in promoting high-performing employees from within the college, if possible,” but acknowledged that in some cases, “we may have to open up the searches to gain a wider pool.”
Jennifer DeMent, the current interim director of finance and auxiliary services, is one of the administrators to be shuffled. She will take over as director of finance, effective July 1, 2010. “I am pleased to receive a regular appointment to the finance director position and excited to have JoAnn (Zahn) back on the team handling budget and auxiliary services,” said DeMent. “I'm confident that we will be able to continue moving the College forward in achieving its mission.”
Zahn has acted as the interim vice president of administrative services since the academic year began. She was unavailable for comment.
Some of the positions involve faculty members that became interim deans but are returning to their positions as instructors. Chris Maier will be returning to her faculty assignment in integrated media at the end of this academic year. Maier has acted as interim associate dean of visual and performing arts and integrated media this year.
“When I took this position, it was with the understanding that I would return to my first love— teaching— at the end of one or at the most, two years,” said Maier. “I saw this as an opportunity to contribute at a higher level to an institution whose mission I believe in, with all my heart, and make it a better place.”
Eleven other interim administrators will also stay in their current positions for at least another academic year, but, Sygielski said, some of those positions may be posted for recruitment or appointed permanently to those positions.
Other positions in transition: Gale Blessing, director of human resources and labor relations, will take over as director of institutional safety and security “on or before July 2010.” Rick Bolesta, interim dean of science, will be returning to his faculty assignment at the end of the academic year. Nancy Szofran, vice president of research and planning and interim director of the library, will relinquish her role as interim director of the library, and a new director of the library position has been developed and will be open for recruitment.
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And if Ms. Blessing does the same quality job in Safety that she did in HR, we'll all need hard hats and armor just to make it across the campus.