Education

UW President To Transition To Faculty Position

Wyoming Public Radio | By Tennessee Jane Watson
Published March 26, 2019 at 8:19 AM MDT
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University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming announced Monday that President Laurie Nichols will transition to a faculty position when her three-year contract expires on June 30, 2019.

In UW news release, Nichols said she is proud of the progress made during her tenure as president, pointing to the opening of a Native American center and the university's strategic plan.

Details about how UW plans to fill the position were not disclosed in the release.

 

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Tennessee -- despite what the name might make you think -- was born and raised in the Northeast. She most recently called Vermont home. For the last 15 years she's been making radio -- as a youth radio educator, documentary producer, and now reporter. Her work has aired on Reveal, The Heart, LatinoUSA, Across Women's Lives from PRI, and American RadioWorks. One of her ongoing creative projects is co-producing Wage/Working (a jukebox-based oral history project about workers and income inequality). When she's not reporting, Tennessee likes to go on exploratory running adventures with her mutt Murray.
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