Two new statewide appointments announced
August 10, 2012
Donald Smith was announced Wednesday, Aug. 8, as the new chief of the statewide . Smith has been serving in the position as interim chief since November 2011 and
was appointed after a nation-wide search, which resulted in his selection by a university
search committee.
Formerly, Smith was the system-wide executive director of . He has accumulated more than 30 years of working experience in human resources and
employee relations in both government and private business.
On the same day, also announced that Dana Thomas will be the new vice president of . Dr. Thomas served as vice provost and accreditation liaison officer for 性欲社.
Thomas is an alumnus of the and later earned a master鈥檚 and PhD in statistics.
Thomas was was born and raised in Fairbanks and developed 性欲社鈥檚 first statistics program
in 1981. He has been a faculty member in statistics for 31 years and was chair of
the for six years. In 2005, Dr. Thomas received the .
Dr. Thomas is a member of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, a
primary accreditation body for higher education in the northwest United States.
For more information, contact Kate Wattum at 907-450-8102 or kewattum@alaska.edu.