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New appointees join President's Cabinet
The Advocate
Cassie McVeety has joined the MHCC President’s Cabinet as the vice president of college advancement and executive director of the MHCC Foundation.
McVeety assumed her post Aug. 10 and said she already feels at home on the MHCC campus.
“I love it,” McVeety said. “I’m just so amazed at how nice everyone is. It feels like a family.”
McVeety has worked at Washington State University in Vancouver and at Portland State University. Under her, PSU “got the biggest gift in PSU history; it was a $25 million gift,” said McVeety.
It was during her years at PSU and WSU that McVeety gathered experience in public relations, marketing and other areas. According to MHCC President John Sygielski, it was McVeety’s experience that made the college select her for this position.
“She has got sound, successful experience,” Sygielski said. “She understands community colleges.”
“I’m very excited to be here,” McVeety said, adding that “this is an atmosphere where we can be creative and problem-solvers and take this wonderful college and transform it to be even better.”
The President’s Cabinet has seen another addition, Robert Frost, who is serving as interim vice president of student success and enrollment management.
Frost joined the staff in the middle of summer and will be “finishing up this fall.” Frost said the college will be searching for a permanent hire.
Sygielski added, “People will be looking through applications in the next week or two.”
Frost sees the position as a “key position in the President’s Cabinet” and that “the vice president level is a key indication of the president’s support for student services.”
From his time here, Frost has said that the qualities needed in a permanent hire include focusing on student development, student support programs and “integrating services with learning activities wherever possible.”
While she’s not new to the President’s Cabinet, Nancy Szofran, vice president of research, planning and institutional effectiveness, is now lending her assistance to the library as well.
“She went into the library to evaluate it,” Sygielski said.
According to Sygielski, Szofran’s role will be to “review and analyze the internal workings of the library to make suggestions to me.”
These suggestions, Sygielski added, will be utilized to find a permanent hire.
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