Linda Vaughan accepts associate dean position

MESA, Ariz. – The School of Applied Arts and Sciences has named Linda Vaughan as the associate dean for the school after serving in that capacity on an interim basis for the past four months. She will continue to help manage the School’s growth and efforts to attract students to the school’s programs.

“Linda has the skills, experience, colleague respect and university knowledge, which will be essential to continue the advancement of the School,” said Craig Thatcher, dean of the school. “She will be an integral and important part of the School’s leadership team to implement our future structure and our new programs and initiatives in instruction, research and outreach.”

Vaughan has been closely involved in the development of a proposed new school organizational structure and academic programs, including an interdisciplinary health sciences program, as well as building linkages between the school’s academic units with those across the Poly campus and the university as a whole.

Vaughan has served as the Department of Nutrition chair for six years, as well as president of the Faculty Senate at the Polytechnic campus between 2007-2008. She has been an ASU professor for more than 25 years.

“I am very pleased to have the opportunity to continue working with the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Applied Arts and Sciences,” said Vaughan.  “Over the past four months, a number of fiscal challenges have arisen yet our School’s faculty and staff  have remained committed to excellence in academics, scholarship and community embeddedness.”

She begins her new assignment immediately.

ASU’s Polytechnic campus, located in southeast Mesa, offers bachelor and graduate degree programs, unparalleled by other Arizona state universities, through the Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness, the School of Applied Arts and Sciences, the College of Technology and Innovation, and the School of Educational Innovation and Teacher Preparation. Visit us online at http://www.poly.asu.edu.

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