FAIRFIELD — Fairfield University has announced the appointment of Jill Buban as its new Vice President of Digital Strategy and Online Education, and Andres Carrano, as the new dean of the School of Engineering.
The appointments follow national searches. Buban’s appointment took place last week. Her job will be to oversee strategic development, infrastructure and programming, expand Fairfield’s online and hybrid academic program offerings, with a particular focus on graduate and professional studies.
The position has been posted since 2019 with the intent of hiring this spring, according to Jenn Anderson, a university spokeswoman.
Most recently, Buban has served as the chief academic officer of the Texas-based Unizin Consortium, overseeing the organization’s research activities and acting as the liaison for Unizin’s robust teaching and learning committee. Unizin was formed by a number of higher education institutions to collaborate and share ever-changing digital teaching.
Carrano, who will assume his new assignment on August 1, is currently a professor and associate dean for research in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing at Georgia Southern University.
In addition to prior faculty appointments at universities in Japan, Turkey, and Venezuela, Carrano served as a Fulbright scholar in Italy in 2018, and was awarded a NASA research fellowship at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 2016. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in industrial and systems engineering from North Carolina State University, and his BS degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Católica Andres Bello — the oldest of three Jesuit universities in Venezuela.
from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Fairfield-University-Announces-New-Leadership-15217867.php
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