C-Level View :: July 12, 2006

  • 07/11/06

From the Personnel Office

New IT Associate Vice Provost and CIO at UT San Antonio

On July 17, John McGowan will become the University of Texas, San Antonio ’s new IT associate vice provost and CIO, filling the vacancy left by Jeffrey Noyes’s retirement. McGowan leaves Florida International University where he worked for four years as that institution’s vice president for information technology and CIO.

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Babson Appoints Local Director for Portland Fast Track MBA

Babson College (MA) has named Kristin Gustaff director of business development and program management for a new Portland-area Fast Track MBA, which opens this coming fall and is offered in a blended learning format for experienced, working professionals.

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