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Smith Names Chief Public Affairs and College Relations OfficerB. Ann Wright has been appointed to a new position at Smith College -- Chief Public Affairs and College Relations Officer. Her duties will combine long-range planning in such strategic areas as communications and educational policy with Smith's outreach at the state and national level on issues of higher education. It will also include oversight for traditional college relations functions like publications, special events, media relations and town-gown relations. In her present job at Smith, Dean of Enrollment Management, Wright oversees admission, financial aid, college events and summer programs, the Ada Comstock Scholars Program, institutional research and the Career Development Office. Since arriving at Smith in 1991, she has earned high marks for establishing such innovations as the Stride program, through which talented incoming students assist Smith faculty members with research projects; a January-term program that introduces selected Smith undergraduates to leadership skills and issues; special programs to enroll international students and several summer programs that draw high school students to the Smith campus for science research and other study opportunities. Wright has also sought to expand Smith's external affiliations through recently established partnerships with the Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem and Miami-Dade Community College in Florida. Under her direction in the admission area, the average SAT scores for entering Smith students have risen and applications have climbed to record heights. In announcing Wright's appointment, Smith President Ruth Simmons observed "Our enrollment efforts have benefited from Ann's leadership during the last several years. In this new position her talents will be used more broadly for communicating the strengths and needs of the college and for developing partnerships that will strengthen Smith in the years ahead." For her part Wright, too, is enthusiastic. "This is a very exciting time to be at Smith. There are high expectations for the college, and I'm confident they can be met." |
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