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Provost adds new team members Department Chair tackles two positions for Spring, Summer semesters by JAMIE FINK editor-in-chief
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he Division of Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has announced the addition of three new team members to their staff beginning this semester. The three new members include Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford, Department chair of communication and media; Karen Franzone, business manager; and Heather Selim, communications coordinator. Vice President and Provost Dr. Kelly Quintanilla said only one of the three positions is new to the university, while the other two positions had recently been vacated. “Karen and Heather are replacing two staff members, Stephanie Aguilar and Tiffany Herns, who left the university last fall,” Quintanilla said. “One to start her own business and the other who took a
promotion at another institution.” Quintanilla said it was important to the office of academic affairs to fill those positions, because of the work that each requires. The business manager oversees all fiscal operations within the affairs office, while the communications coordinator’s biggest work is helping oversee the university’s graduation commencements. Along with the two vacant positions filled, the division also created an all-new position that has now been filled. Aldridge Sanford will serve as the first administrative fellow for the Division of Academic Affairs. The fellowship is not a position in the traditional sense, fellowships are not permanent and they are not paid. “These fellowships function in many ways like an internship,” Quintanilla said. “For each fellow that comes in, there might be a
specific topic that they want to focus on and do additional work on for their time while serving.” The fellowship, however, is not the first for Aldridge Sanford. Sanford, while serving at her previous higher education institution in Oklahoma, also served on a fellowship during her time there. “I worked on the fellowship at my previous university for our new interim provost because she needed some help,” Aldridge Sanford said. “I stepped in and helped fill a position which our provost had just left to help continue to do work.” Aldridge Sanford said the position was not formally known as a fellowship until she left and they decided to carry on the position. “While serving in that position, it became very obvious to me of the work done at the department level was very important,” Aldridge Sanford said. “If that work is done correctly, then work all the
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way up to academic affairs goes a lot smoother. That’s when I decided to become a department chair.” Because the fellowship is not a permanent position, Aldridge Sanford will continue to serve as the department chair for Communication and Media. In order to open
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