{"id":52600,"date":"2018-09-20T09:29:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=52600"},"modified":"2018-09-20T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:32:12","slug":"john-masserini-vice-provost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/john-masserini-vice-provost\/","title":{"rendered":"John Masserini selected as next vice provost for academic affairs at NAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interim Provost <strong>Brian Levin-Stankevich <\/strong>announced this week that <strong>John Masserini<\/strong> will be the next vice provost for <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/Provost\/About-Academic-Affairs\/\">academic affairs<\/a> at Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n<p>Masserini, who is the associate dean for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/graduate-college\/\">Graduate College<\/a>, will assist in expertise, practices and internal and external relationships to ensure quality and integrity and advance NAU in its mission of student success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored and thrilled to be joining the Provost\u2019s Office in this important role,\u201d Masserini said. \u201cCollaborating with units across campus to maintain, develop and build student success initiatives at NAU will be tremendously rewarding, as will identifying and highlighting the many ways NAU\u2019s academic and institutional efforts positively impact student retention and persistence toward degree completion. Providing students with meaningful experiences coupled with robust resources is our priority as we carry out our mission to prepare and graduate an educated and engaged citizenry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masserini has many years of experience contributing to student success at NAU. Prior to working at the Graduate College, he was associate director for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nau.edu\/cal\/music\/\">School of Music<\/a>, and he remains a professor of clarinet in the school.<\/p>\n<p>He received his bachelor\u2019s in music performance from the University of New Mexico and his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in music performance from Michigan State University.<\/p>\n<p>Levin-Stankevich said he was pleased Masserini would become part of the provost\u2019s office and thanked the other internal candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank those of our colleagues who allowed themselves to be considered for this position,\u201d Levin-Stankevich said. \u201cDoing so within one\u2019s own university is a difficult challenge, and I appreciate their forbearance and courage in doing so.\u00a0 I also want to thank the members of the screening committee for their diligence in achieving a balanced and thorough assessment of our candidates and campus input.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masserini will begin his role as vice provost on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/john-masserini-vice-provost\/\">Interim Provost Brian Levin-Stankevich announced this week that John Masserini will be the next vice provost for academic affairs at Northern Arizona University. Masserini, who is the associate dean for the Graduate College, will assist in expertise, practices and internal and external relationships to ensure quality and integrity and advance NAU in its mission of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":52601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}