Editor’s Note: At his State of the University Address, President David Glassman announced the creation of a vitalization project meant to guide planning and budgeting decisions and make changes to programs and services on campus. This is a list of the members who will be on the workgroups and task force part of the vitalization project, as found on the vitalization project’s webpage.

Members of the workgroups and task force involved in the vitalization project have been announced on the project’s webpage.

The committee chair who will oversee the entire task force is interim dean of the graduate school Ryan Hendrickson.

Robert Miller, Eastern’s general counsel, is the chair of the President’s Liasion Subcommittee, with members Mary Konkle, chemistry professor; Kathlene Shank, chair of the special education department; and Emily Stuby, interim assistant director of planning and institutional research.

In workgroup one, which deals with student services, is chair Rick Roberts, chair of the department of counseling and student development; Peter Andrew, mathematics and computer science professor; Eric Davidson, interim director of health service; Heidi Hawkins, assistant university budget officer; English professor Angela Vietto; student Hugo Escobar and student Kallee Peebles-Tomes.

Workgroup two, university technology, consists of chair Ryan Gibson, webmaster and director of the web and mobile application division on campus; Josh Awalt, interim assistant director of information security; biological sciences professor Billy Hung; and Ben Merry, LAN Administrator of Health Service.

Workgroup three, tasked with enrollment management, will include chair Jody Stone, senior associate director of Housing and Dining; Todd Bruns, institutional repository librarian; music professor Paul Johnston; Josh Norman, director of enrollment management data analysis and reporting; and student Greta Dieter.

Workgroup four, for Intercollegiate Athletics, includes chair Tami Babbs, assistant comptroller; Kevin Linker, program director for recreational sports; Steve Rich, assistant vice president for advancement; chemistry professor Dan Sheeran; and student Kelsie Abolt.

The members of the facilities workgroup, workgroup five, are chair and physics professor Steven Daniels; Matt Brown, associate director of student housing; accountant Lauren Clapp; and superintendent of grounds Scott Hall.

Workgroup six, tasked with marketing and university branding, includes chair and marketing professor, Richard Flight; Jeremy Alexander, interim associate director of Housing and Dining, assistant director of marketing and creative services Christy Kilgore, communication studies professor Chigozerim Utah and student Jack Cruikshank.

The chair of workgroup seven, academic programs, is Cindy Rich, project director for teaching with primary sources; the members are medical insurance manager Angie Campbell; psychology professor Assege HaileMarian; music professor Danelle Larson; director of development Mike Murray; accountant Joyce Schumacher; business professor Scott Stevens; and director of student standards Heather Webb.

The eighth group, Academic Visioning Workgroup I, will consist of chair and psychology professor Jeff Stowell, interim dean of the graduate school Ryan Hendrickson, Renee Kidd-Marshall, director of the nursing program, technology professor Peter Ping Lui; Kelly Miller, interim director of admissions; biological sciences professor Britto Nathan; special education professor Amy Rosenstein; chair of the history department Nora Pat Small; student Samantha Boomgarden; and student Kimberly Kuspa.

The ninth group, Academic Visioning Workgroup II, has as its chair political science professor Melinda Mueller, and its members are education professor Jay Bickford; Austin Cheney, chair of the school of technology; Richard England, dean of the honors college; sociology professor Michael Gillespie; Amanda Harvey, interim associate director for health service; English professor Suzie Park; health studies professor Sheila Simons; and students Kersten Kidd and Neil Rhoades.

Blair Lord, provost and vice president for academic affairs; Lynette Drake, interim associate vice president for student affairs; and Paul McCann, interim vice president for business affairs, are involved with the task force as well.

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