President Alger makes executive assistant appointment
Maggie Burkhart Evans
President
Jonathan R. Alger announced today that Maggie Burkhart Evans has been selected to
fill the role of executive assistant to the president.
As a
member of the Senior Leadership Team she will be responsible for coordinating
the agenda for the team’s meetings, reviewing and drafting responses to correspondence
sent to the president’s office, facilitating policy review with the University
Policy Committee, coordinating assignments with the university commissions and
committees while serving as a resource to those groups, and acting as a liaison
with the vice presidents.
“I am
delighted that Maggie will be joining the Senior Leadership Team,” said President
Alger. “She brings a wealth of
experience within the university and is widely respected by faculty, staff, and
students. She will bring a fresh and
thoughtful perspective to our leadership.”
Since
coming to JMU in 1990 as the assistant director of residence life, Evans has served
as the associate director and interim senior director of residence life, and as
the honor council coordinator from 2001 to 2007. Most recently she served as the director of
residence life, a position in which she was responsible for the
leadership, administration and supervision of all functions within the
department.
Throughout her JMU career, she has served in a variety of
other capacities on the Academic Affairs Associate Dean Management Team (since
2001), the College Student Personnel Administration Program Committee (since
1991), the Judicial Council (since 1994), and as a graduate instructor in the
JMU department of graduate psychology.
Additionally, she has played key roles on several influential committees
at JMU, including the Quality Enhancement Plan Committee, Policy Committee
(chair) for the Institute for the Stewardship of the Natural World, the JMU
Honor Advisory Board, Student Affairs Program Review Task Force, the Commission
on Community, the Alcohol Task Force, the Homecoming Committee, and the Student
Affairs Emergency Response Team.
Evans belongs to several professional associations, among
them the Virginia Association of College and University Housing Officers, which
awarded her the 2010 Pioneer award; the Southeastern Association of Housing
Officers, of which she’s the current president; and the Association of College
and University Housing Officers International, who selected her as the 2007
recipient of their Presidential Service Award.
She received her M.A. in educational policy and
leadership from The Ohio State University and her B.A. in communications/graphic
design from Bowling Green State University.
