Evelyn Silver Named UMaine Associate Vice President
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ORONO, Me. — Evelyn Silver, director of Equal Opportunity at the University of Maine, has been named Associate Vice President for Personnel and Academic Services at UMaine. The appointment, announced today by UMaine Executive Vice President and Provost Robert Kennedy, was approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees at its June meeting.
Silver will work in the provost’s office and will manage assigned UMaine units that provide academic services. She will also oversee the administration of personnel-related matters in the provost’s office, including new appointments, reappointments, grievances, and the promotion/tenure process. Silver will be responsible for new faculty and chair orientation, as well as ongoing professional development for chairs and directors. She will coordinate diversity efforts within academic affairs.
“I am looking forward with great enthusiasm to these new responsibilities,” Silver says. “The associate vice president’s role will allow me to work closely with faculty and staff in the university’s academic areas, and with units outside the colleges that provide services important to UMaine’s mission.”
Silver earned a doctorate in educational administration in 1977 at the University of Maryland. She worked for the University of Maine System Office of Human Resources before joining the UMaine administration in 1996. She became director of Equal Opportunity in 1998.
A search for her successor in that job is in its final stages.
“I am delighted to have Evelyn joining our staff,” Kennedy says. “She has proven over the past several years to be an extremely effective and dynamic leader, and an important part of the senior management team at UMaine. I am looking forward to Evelyn’s continued contributions to our efforts in this new capacity.”
Silver will begin her duties on Aug. 1.