Wednesday, April 24, 2024
REMINDER: 2024 CLASS Awards next Tuesday, April 30, 2-5 p.m. in ESC
Don't miss the following in this issue:
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Chanel Craft Tanner accepts position at UVA
Emory’s director of the Center for Women, Chanel Craft Tanner, is leaving the university for a new opportunity to serve as director of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center at the University of Virginia (UVA). Tanner’s last day with Emory is May 30.
Over the past decade, Tanner has cultivated a dynamic Center for Women on the Emory campus, notably celebrating the 30th
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Anniversary of the Center for Women last year. As highlighted in a 2023 Emory News Center story, “the center offers more than a dozen programs on and off campus, including a feminist advisory group called Praxis; Women in the Wilderness programs; and several affinity groups for Women of Color: La Terraza, The Kitchen Table and Waves."
During the transition, Tia Williams will serve as interim director of the center, continuing the important work of supporting Emory students.
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Kate Stacks is named manager of Emory Bookstore
The Emory Bookstore has a new store manager, Kate Stacks (she, her, hers), who brings a strong background in retail management. Stacks’ most recent position was manager with Blick Art Materials, where her responsibilities included recruitment and training, community engagement, and cultivating relationships with universities. Stacks also worked as assistant manager with Staples, the office supply store,
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managing the chain’s highest volume location in the Southeast and overseeing recruitment, customer service training, merchandising, and operations.
Stacks is eager to cultivate meaningful connections throughout the university community and provide support to students, faculty and staff. As a Barnes & Noble employee, she will work closely with Lina Vargas, Campus Life’s chief business officer and assistant vice president. Stacks shares a home with her partner Dana, their two cats and a “grumpy old dog.” She spends much of her leisure time reading, watercolor painting and gardening, which involves considerable time wondering what is eating her plants. Kate invites her Emory colleagues to “stop by and say hello” when they are in the bookstore.
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2024 Spring Workshops: Affirmative Action SCOTUS panel, Friday, April 26, 2-3:30 p.m.
In June 2023, The Supreme Court of the United States struck down affirmative action programs in college admissions. This workshop will explore how Emory changed its approach to admissions in response to the decision and what impact, if any, this decision has had on university admissions. The session features Mindy Simon, associate general counsel; John Latting, associate vice provost and dean of Admissions; and Ivone Foisy, executive director of Admissions and Enrollment at the Rollins School of Public Health.
This event is available on Zoom and in the presentation room of 1390 Oxford Road. Register here.
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Lina Vargas graduates from Excellence Through Leadership Program
Campus Life's chief business officer and assistant vice president, Lina Vargas, completed Emory's Excellence Through Leadership (ETL) Program last week. The program, which provides development for the university's senior leaders, is a collaboration between university Human Resources and the Goizueta School of Business. Program goals are to strengthen leadership performance across the university
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and establish a leadership pipeline for succession planning. Lina Vargas began the nine-month program in August 2023.
“The program provided a range of excellent resources, but the most valuable for me was learning from my Emory colleagues," said Vargas. "Although there are differences in our day-to-day experiences, our leadership journeys shared many common themes, especially our shared commitment to excellence in serving Emory students and the entire university community.”
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Bon Appetit celebrates women in culinary
Congratulations to Tanarsha Farley and Cristina Espinosa, two Bon Appétit chefs who travelled to Dallas, Texas, to represent the company at Compass Group’s annual Women in Culinary Showcase in early March.
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14 Emory staff members honored with Award of Distinction
Meet the 14 recipients of this year’s Award of Distinction, the highest honor given to university staff, and learn about their outstanding contributions to the Emory community. [As reported previously, Campus Life's Kate Grace and Roland Witter are among the 14 recipients of the 2024 award.]
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This Week in Emory Athletics: April 22-27
This week, men's and women's tennis and track & field teams are traveling to UAA Championships! And the baseball team will close out the regular season with a 4-game series against Brandeis at home. Come cheer on the Eagles!
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If you have submissions or other suggestions for this newsletter, please email us at: jbbrown@emory.edu.
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