Three named to University posts

Three high-level appointments were announced in May following extensive searches. The new officials are:

Susan C. Buckley

Susan C. Buckley, chosen as associate vice president of finance and university services and director of human resources, a position she has held on an interim basis since July 2001. She has been associate director of human resources since January 2001.

Human resources is responsible for programs and policies that attract, develop, and retain qualified staff and provide a variety of critical University-wide services. Units within the department include faculty and staff benefits, family services, classification and compensation, the Dual Career Network, payroll, employee and labor relations, and the UI Wellness Program, among others.

Buckley, who has worked at the University since 1975, has an M.S. degree in sociology from Purdue University and a B.S. degree in sociology from the State University of New York.

Buckley is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the College and University Personnel Association for Human Resources. She has served on numerous University, Iowa City, and state boards and committees.

She has been project director for numerous state and federal grants, has made dozens of presentations on human resources issues, and has authored and coauthored several articles, including most recently "The Status of Gender Equity: Recommendations and Strategies for Improving Recruitment and Retention of Women in Trade/Technical Classrooms" for the Iowa Department of Education's Iowa Community College Technical Assistance Project Report.

Charlotte Westerhaus

Charlotte Westerhaus, named director of the Office of Affirmative Action. She currently is Rockwell Collins' manager of diversity and equal employment opportunity. Westerhaus has been at Rockwell Collins since May 2001. In past positions she was director of affirmative action at Purdue University from 1998 to 2001 and assistant to the chancellor for equity and diversity at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, from 1996 to 1998. For four years she was a civil litigation attorney.

Westerhaus has a J.D. degree from Indiana University and an M.Ed. and B.S. in journalism from Ohio University.

Her responsibilities will include conducting educational programs for staff, monitoring staff searches and inquiries, hiring employees, handling discrimination complaints, and advising the President's Office on affirmative action policies. She will begin work June 1.

Elizabeth Prine Paul

Elizabeth Prine Pauls, whose appointment as the state archaeologist and director of the Office of the State Archaeologist awaits approval by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa. It will be effective July 15. She will take over for Stephen Lensink, who has served as interim director since August 2001.

Pauls will be responsible for the Office of the State Archaeologist's program of statewide archaeological research, service, and education.

Since 1997, Pauls has been an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. She also has served as director of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and spatial analysis for the Menoken Archaeology Project since 1999. For the last five years, her research has focused on ways that Native people used the plains environment and its cultural landscapes in their resistance against Euroamerican colonial powers.

Pauls earned a B.A. with honors in anthropology from The University of Iowa in 1990 and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and 1997, respectively.

In addition to leading the Office of the State Archaeologist, Pauls will have an adjunct faculty appointment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology. As the state archaeologist, Pauls will be responsible for identifying and defining the state's archaeological needs and developing a plan to meet them; locating and excavating archaeological sites for the recovery, restoration, and preservation of archaeological remains; reviewing environmental impact statements; acting as liaison with appropriate federal, state, local, and private agencies; developing a program of information dissemination on Iowa archaeology; and guiding and coordinating archaeological activities within the state, including vigorous enforcement of the state's reburial law.

by Mary Geraghty Kenyon and Steve Parrott