MaC Director Search

Over the past six years our Marketing and Communications group has become a vital part of ITS.  A common theme I hear from colleagues around the country is the difficulty of communications.  Our constituency is large and multi-faceted.  It's easy to separate into groups of faculty, students, researchers and staff.  The reality though is that each of these groups is very diverse and often overlapping.

Trying to craft messages and promotional material that reach everyone is difficult, as is conveying often complex issues to members of the media, yet as the services we provide become more pervasive it's critical that we find effective ways to communicate. Our MaC group has met this challenge and continues to look for innovative methods to be even more effective in communicating to our community.

I think most of you know that Robin Anderson has announced plans to leave Penn State next Spring.  She will explore new territory and devote time to her growing photography interest.

This is wonderful for Robin but both a challenge and opportunity for ITS.

The opening for the position of Director, Marketing and Communications, has been posted for internal applicants and also advertised in national higher educ. job announcement sites. A search committee has been formed and is awaiting applications.

As was done with recent job openings at this level, the search committee will narrow the candidate pool to a very few who will then be asked to participate in multiple interview sessions with various ITS staff and an open public forum.

We expect the process to be concluded and a new Director announced by the end of the first quarter, 2009.