President Lambert has promoted Dan Anderson to lead ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Office of University Communications
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ president Leo M. Lambert has promoted Daniel J. Anderson to vice president, heading the newly named Office of University Communications. Anderson has directed the Office of University Relations since joining ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ in 1998 and was named assistant vice president in 2004.
Anderson is a member of the president’s senior staff and leads a staff of 14 professionals handling the university’s print and web communications, media relations, news production and distribution, promotion, advertising and marketing. The new Office of University Communications will report to the Office of the President through Executive Vice President Gerald L. Francis.
“ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ has been fortunate to have Dan Anderson guiding its communications for more than a decade of tremendous institutional change and growth,” Lambert said. “He has strengthened ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s national visibility in countless ways and has been a valuable adviser and member of my senior leadership team.”
Anderson has played an important role in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s emergence as a national university, managing outreach to national media and college rankings surveys that have consistently rated ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ among the nation’s top universities. He has written, developed and carried out communications plans for development of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ website, the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Commitment and NewCentury@ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ strategic plans, the Ever ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Vision fundraising campaigns, creation of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ School of Law, the transition from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ College to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and the selection of the Phoenix as ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s athletics identity.
Anderson is a native of Fargo, N.D. He previously served as news bureau director at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., and began his career as a broadcast journalist, serving 17 years at WDAY-TV-Radio in Fargo. He is a summa cum laude graduate in mass communications from Minnesota State University Moorhead.