Newsbeats NEW ASSOCIATE DEANS APPOINTED
K Kathleen J. Barnes
athleen J. Barnes has been named associate dean of the Cotsakos College of Business. She also has been appointed as a professor of management. Loretta C. McLaughlin Vignier has been named associate dean of the College of the Arts and Communication. Barnes comes to the University from the University of New Haven, where she served as a professor of management and associate dean of its College of Business from 2013 to 2015. Previously, she was an associate professor of management at East Stroudsburg University and an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. Before beginning her career in higher education, Barnes spent 13 years in the banking industry as a senior consultant, marketing director, marketing and commercial lending officer, and senior credit analyst at
various banks including Valley National Bank, State Bank of Chittenango, and Marine Midland Bank. Vignier joined the University in 2009 as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Communication, and has served as interim associate dean of the College since January 2015. A seasoned television producer and director with nearly two decades of experience, she has held roles with the ABC News program 20/20 and cable television network Court TV, where she covered high-profile trials including the People vs. OJ Simpson and Michigan vs. Jack Kervorkian. On campus, she created the University’s award-winning television program The Roundabout, a college version of ABC’s roundtable talk show, The View. Vignier is board president of the New York City affiliate of Alliance for Women in Media.
Loretta C. McLaughlin Vignier
STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN NASA EDUCATOR INSTITUTE Education professor Djanna Hill led a team of 10 College of Education students to the NASA Educator Institute Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland this past summer for a week-long educator institute. The students, all science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teacher candidates,
participated in student-centered classroom activities that utilize NASA assets and resources, and they will continue to have access to NASA professional development opportunities and educational resources. Thanks to their attendance, the University is now a member institution of the NASA MSI (Minority Serving Institution) Network. Professor Djanna Hill (fourth from right) with students at the NASA Educator Institute
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