Beverly Cotton Shuford named Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services

Dear UAA Community,

I am pleased to share that Beverly Cotton Shuford has accepted the position of vice chancellor for administrative services following a nationwide search. She will begin at UAA on May 3, 2018.

Beverly brings a wealth of experience in university finance and administration to this role. Since 2014, she has served as the associate vice president of budget and analytics at the University of North Texas where she has been responsible for an annual operating budget of more than $700 million and served as lead for strategic planning operations.

Beverly previously worked as the vice president of budget and finance at Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School where she supervised operational cash flows for the school's $8.5 million operating budget and the investment of its $77 million endowment.

Between 1999 and 2011, she held several positions of increasing responsibility in finance and administration at Texas Tech University, where she also earned bachelor's degrees in accounting and finance and a master's in accounting with a tax emphasis. In May, she will receive her doctoral degree in higher education administration from Texas Tech.

Beverly is a certified public accountant with a proven track record of effective leadership across the institutions she has served. I am delighted she will soon become part of the UAA leadership team and know you will join me in sending her a warm welcome to UAA and to Anchorage.

Please also join me in thanking the search committee for their dedication to a process that yielded a strong set of finalists from a highly qualified pool of applicants. I also wish to express our collective gratitude to Pat Shier for his leadership and service as interim vice chancellor since October 2016.

Sincerely, Samuel B. Gingerich UAA Interim Chancellor

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