Staff moves: Tracy Hall, Monica Porter, Christopher Tremblay

Stanley Henderson, vice chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student Life, recently announced the promotion of two EMSL community members: Monica Porter is now assistant vice chancellor for student success, and Christopher Tremblay is assistant vice chancellor for enrollment management.

As assistant vice chancellor for student success, Porter will provide strategic leadership and management for the Student Success Center, including the offices of academic assistance, career services, counseling and disability services, international affairs, and the Women’s Resource Center, in order to identify, meet, and maintain the university’s University’s undergraduate retention goals as well as enrollment goals for international students. Porter will take a major role in working collaboratively with other EMSL units as well as academic affairs and the academic units to develop strategic enrollment management on the campus with emphasis on student success and international programs.

As assistant vice chancellor for enrollment management, Tremblay will provide strategic leadership and management to the offices of admissions and orientation and financial aid and scholarships in order to meet and maintain the University’s undergraduate enrollment goals. Tremblay will work with the deans in the academic units to help shape enrollment priorities and strategies that will meet the units' and the university's University's enrollment goals. He will take a major role in working collaboratively with other enrollment/student life units and academic affairs to develop strategic enrollment planning for the campus. In addition, he will provide leadership for EMSL measurement and assessment initiatives.

The above reorganization has been accomplished through reallocation of existing resources in EMSL.

In other staff news, Ismael Ahmed, associate provost for integrated learning and community partnerships, announced the interim appointment of part-time faculty member Tracy Hall, who will work with faculty, students and the campus’s partners to grow civic engagement and partnership services.

Hall has more than 25 years of federal, state and local legislative/regulatory, nonprofit, public policy, academic and communications experience. She has served as adjunct faculty since 1997 at UM-Dearborn and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). Hall worked at Focus: HOPE from 2002-2009 as director of advancement and external affairs, as well as for Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, the Center for Excellence in Municipal Management, Capitol Associates Inc., the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Congress and several other places in a variety of leadership roles.

For the past four years, Hall has served as the co-chair of the Michigan Nonprofit Association’s Southeast Michigan Public Policy Council. She is a mentor in UM-Dearborn’s Transition program, is a founding and executive board member of the Greater Detroit Network for Social Innovators, and has served in many more professional associations, public policy, advocacy and community service groups.