Appointments
Penn State Intercom......February 1, 2001
Winter takes post of director
of Institutional Advancement
Patricia Quinn Winter
was named director of Institutional Advancement for Penn State McKeesport.
She is responsible for development, alumni and donor cultivation, including grant writing, and will supervise public relations, marketing and community outreach efforts of the campus.
For the past five years she served as director of development and university relations at Penn State New Kensington, where she planned and implemented a $1.5 million capital campaign. In addition, she coordinated all aspects of development, university relations, special events, alumni relations and media relations.
Winter will assume similar responsibilities at the Mc-
Keesport campus where a $3.5 capital campaign is under way.
From 1991 to 1993 she was director of annual programs at Chatham College and from 1993 to 1996 served as director of development administration there. Since 1983 she has held a variety of marketing and public relations positions with a Virginia architectural firm, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, American Red Cross in Richmond and the United Way of Greater Richmond.
Winter graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor of science degree in journalism.
2 new staff members named
at Penn State Mckeesport
Penn State McKeesport administration has named two new professional staff members.
Carol J. Power is the
career services coordinator in the Division of Undergraduate Studies.
She provides advising and testing for students to help determine career
choices and places students in internships to obtain on-the-job experience.
Power has served as a counselor/case manager for the Allegheny Intermediate Unit Adult Education/Workforce Development Division for the Hospitality/Customer Service Training and Em-ployment Program; as career counselor for the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh; and as a vocational retention specialist for the Community College of Allegheny County Student Outreach Center, South Campus. She also has held counselor and therapist positions in the mental health field.
She holds a master of science degree in education in counselor education and community counseling services from Duquesne University and a bachelor of arts in journalism from Kent State University.
Phillip D. Harris is
the academic counselor for the Academic and Career Excellence program,
a federally funded program that provides services to students who meet
U.S. Department of Education Student Support Services guidelines. He graduated
from the University of 
Pittsburgh
with a bachelor of science degree in psychology and minor in black studies
and has a master's degree in counselor education from the California University
of Pennsylvania.
He was Fatherhood Initiative coordinator and case manager at McKeesport High School, where he developed and coordinated an intensive program for young fathers. From 1995 to 2000 he served as a counselor at the Addison Terrace Learning Center and implemented treatment and safety plans for families. He also has worked as a mental-health crisis worker at Western Psychiatric Institute.
Penn State Executive
Programs add new members
Two new staff members have joined Penn State Executive Programs and The Smeal College of Business Administration.
Claudia H. Lange has been named as marketing communications account specialist; and Michael E. Werner has been named business manager. Lange and Werner will work in The Smeal College of Business Administration.
Lange will be responsible for developing, directing and implementing marketing and advertising plans for Executive Programs. Before joining Penn State, Lange was the publicity and advertising coordinator for South Hills School of Business and Technology in State College. She received her master's degree in education from Penn State in 1993 and her bachelor of arts from Penn State in 1985.
Werner's responsibilities will include managing the daily business operation of Executive Programs. He was business manager of The Center for the Performing Arts from 1985-1991. In addition, Werner was a budget-planning analyst for the Office of Budget and Resource Analysis from 1978-1985. Werner earned his bachelor of science degree from Penn State in 1974.