Chancellor Mitchelson: Division of Administration and Finance Announcement

As we enter this week of Thanksgiving, we remember it’s a time of thanks and gratitude. Please join me in thanking Sara Thorndike for her work at East Carolina University for the last two years. We express our goodwill as she joins Penn State University as senior vice president for Finance and Business/treasurer early in the new year.

We are appreciative of Sara’s leadership of the 1,100-member Administration and Finance team as the coronavirus has thrown them – and the university – one curveball after another. Last fiscal year, total revenues were in excess of $976 million. It takes a team to manage this enterprise. Sara joined ECU in early 2018 coming from UNC-Wilmington and contributed her strategic accounting and financial principles to ECU’s already strong Admin & Finance division.

I plan to appoint an interim vice chancellor to lead the division in the coming weeks.

But today, I’m grateful for Sara’s leadership during her time at ECU and I wish her only the best in the coming years at Penn State.

And I hope all of you have a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

RonM

Dr. Ron Mitchelson
Interim Chancellor