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December 12, 2008, Friday

HEADLINE: Brackin Named Auxiliary Services Corporation Interim Executive Director

BYLINE: US Fed News

DATELINE: CORTLAND, N.Y.

BODY:
SUNY Cortland issued the following news release:

Michelle K. Brackin of Dryden, N.Y., will serve as interim executive director of the Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) at SUNY Cortland, the organization announced on Dec. 8.

Brackin, who currently serves the ASC as assistant to the executive director, begins her duties on Jan. 5. She will replace Dana Wavle [WAH-vul], who is leaving in January after 13 years of service to the College community. He will become vice chancellor of administration and finance at Indiana University Southeast. A search to fill the position on a permanent basis will begin early in the Spring 2009 semester.

Founded more than 50 years ago, ASC is a campus based, not-for-profit organization providing dining services, vending, campus stores, student ID cards and other essential services to the campus community. ASC strives to promote the quality of student life and support the educational goals and mission of the College.

The organization employs approximately 425 full and part-time workers, including many students, and is the larg-est employer of students on campus. A board of directors composed of students, faculty and administrators governs the corporation.

Brackin's responsibilities will include organizing, evaluating and directing the ASC business affairs, including ad-ministrative, fiscal, operational, long-range planning and personnel management.

"Through her background and experience, Ms. Brackin is well poised to assume the responsibilities of executive director of ASC," said Joanne Barry, SUNY Cortland's human resources director.

Before her appointment, Brackin had served as the ASC assistant executive director since 2006. She joined the or-ganization in 1997 as human resources manager, and in that capacity she formalized all aspects of human resources administration. She developed three written employee handbooks and an improved computer payroll system, oversaw the transition to a unionized workplace and negotiated the first and subsequent collective bargaining agreements.

From 1994-97, Brackin was a human resource specialist with the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services, where she was responsible for administration of the health and dental insurance plans, workers' compensation programs, unemployment issues and the human resources information system. She worked in the same capacity at Pall Trinity Micro Corporation in 1993, helping the company with salary administration, the performance evaluation system and a major reduction in force. From 1990-93, she was a personnel payroll coordinator with Deanco, Inc. Brackin began her career in 1984 as a social work assistant and emergency room aide with the Cayuga Medical Center, assisting medical staff in emergency medical procedures for six years.

Born in Fort Collins, Colo., Brackin grew up in Nichols, N.Y. She holds a B.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).

A member of the Local Society for Human Resource Management Chapter of Tompkins County, she served as its 1997-98 president. Brackin chaired the Cortland County Job Employment Services Committee from 1998-2006. In 2005, she completed the Dale Carnegie Course and served as a graduate assistant.

Her husband, Frank, is a retired Ithaca City Police investigator who now works as a forensic digital evidence spe-cialist for the Onondaga County Crime Lab. Their son, Shane, is a college student in Orlando, Fla.

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