TRANSITIONS
CAREER
SERVICES: Eleanor Sanchez, associate dean for career
services, has left the University to relocate to southern
California. Deborah Rothstein and Patricia Macken are
serving as interim executive directors of the Center for Career
Services as a search is conducted for a successor to
Sanchez.
Also, Rachel Nover Benevento ’92, associate
director at the center whose responsibilities included coordinating
the Alumni Partnership Program, has left the University to pursue a
master’s in social work at NYU.
STUDENT
SERVICES: Gene I. Awakuni has been appointed vice president
for student services, where he will be in charge of seven
departments: student financial services, registrar operations,
dining services, health services, student information systems,
residence halls and student activities. Awakuni was vice president
for student affairs at Cal Tech since 1993, after working as
assistant vice chancellor for student academic services at UC Santa
Barbara and director of the counseling center and special assistant
to the vice chancellor for student affairs at UC Irvine.
BIOSPHERE
2: William C. Harris, founding president and executive
director of Biosphere 2, has accepted the position of vice
president for research at the University of South Carolina. Harris
began working for South Carolina in August but is continuing at
Biosphere 2 Center Corporation through the transition to new
leadership.
Over
the past 3 1/2 years, Harris has built Biosphere 2 into a respected
research, education and public service institution. “Bill
Harris has brought vision, energy, and focus on achievement to an
extraordinary challenge,” said Executive Vice Provost
Michael Crow. “I don’t know anyone who could
have achieved what Bill Harris has for this emerging
institution.”
Under Harris’s leadership, education and public program
revenues have grown, research programs have increased grant
earnings, and private support has been obtained for buildings,
public programs, and a scholarship endowment. Harris established an
industry partnership that provides substantial long-term
scholarship and public exhibit support. He has strengthened
community relations in both Tucson and Phoenix and launched a plan
for campus expansion over the next 12 months to accommodate 300
students.
ALUMNI
AFFAIRS & DEVELOPMENT: Emily Kasof, formerly an
assistant director, alumni affairs, in the College Office of Alumni
Affairs and Development, has been named an assistant director of
the College Fund. Grissel Seijo ’93 and Adlar
Garcia ’95, who had been outreach coordinator and
development officer, respectively, at the Double Discovery Center,
have joined the office as assistant directors, alumni
affairs.
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