Sandra MacNevin has been appointed associate vice president for governmental affairs, President Sidney Ribeau has announced.
The new position is in addition to her current role as associate vice president for executive communications and director
of the University's engagement initiative.
With the retirement this summer of Larry Weiss, the current associate vice president for University relations and governmental
affairs, the president said, "I have made the decision to continue the process of restructuring in my office and to combine
the two functions of executive communications and governmental affairs. This organizational change will result in significant
cost savings to the University at a time when fiscal restraint is one of our highest priorities."
MacNevin has considerable experience as a governmental relations professional in the California State University system, where
she directed governmental relations from 1998-2004. Since returning to BGSU in 2004, she has worked on a number of Ohio legislative
initiatives while serving on the Higher Education Funding Commission of the Ohio Board of Regents. In addition, she has been
involved in developing policy and a budget strategy for a Higher Education Compact with the governor and state legislature
on behalf of the Inter-University Council of Presidents.
