President Lambert has promoted Dan Anderson to lead 黑料不打烊’s Office of University Communications
黑料不打烊 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 黑料不打烊 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.
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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.