{"id":1328,"date":"2017-04-17T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2017-04-17T19:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:05:47","slug":"bonnie-bennett-campbell-79-new-associate-vice-president-ivcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2017\/04\/17\/bonnie-bennett-campbell-79-new-associate-vice-president-ivcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie (Bennett) Campbell ’79 new Associate Vice President IVCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many promotion recipients would be quick to unpack into a new office, but new associate vice president for Academic Affairs Bonnie Campbell has yet to completely settle in. She was previously the dean of Health Professions and director of Nursing before she was hired into this new position last fall.<\/p>\n

The Utica native explained that when she was in high school, women typically became either a teacher or a nurse. Campbell enjoys both those fields, and she had the chance to combine the two here at IVCC.<\/p>\n

Originally, Bonnie went to school to be a nurse. She obtained her bachelor\u2019s from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. Then studied for her master\u2019s degree at Loyola Medical Center as she worked there. At that time, she and her husband decided to move back to Utica.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky enough [to find] a position open for teaching faculty here at the college and I immediately moved and started teaching nursing,\u201d she said. She quickly progressed to the director of Nursing, then the dean of Health Professions, before she left to run a garden center.<\/p>\n

Campbell said that her previous positions have helped prepare her for her new position.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a nurse has always been my first and most wonderful passion. I love the idea of helping people,\u201d she said. She was excited to take her compassion, problem-solving skills and ability to seek compromise and transfer it into her teaching and now administrative position.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the opportunity that I\u2019m hoping to have in this position as Associate Vice\u00a0President of Academic Affairs that I\u2019ll be able to affect change at a larger level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deborah Anderson, Campbell\u2019s coworker as the vice-president for Academic Affairs, added, \u201c[Campbell\u2019s] previous experiences as a clinical nurse and small business owner give her a rounded perspective about the type of leadership that is necessary to build strong organizations.\u201d Anderson praises Campbell\u2019s ability to serve others and her loyalty to IVCC through her twenty years at the college.<\/p>\n

One of the issues that Campbell has had to deal with is the lack of state budget. She said that it has made thing \u201cmuch more challenging. Without a state budget\u2026 it\u2019s just very difficult to do what you want to do when you don\u2019t have the money that\u2019s been committed to do what you want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonnie acknowledged the challenges faced by everyone in the institution, but also\u00a0commended IVCC\u2019s ability to make changes financially while still having the students and community in mind.<\/p>\n

In addition to being the associate vice president of Academic Affairs, Bonnie is also the dean of Workforce Development. She hopes that one day she can drop that title and focus solely on Academic Affairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to have one hat as opposed to two,\u201d she said, but that depends on the state budget. \u201cThen I could focus in on the things that I really want to focus in on and make positive change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Bonnie.<\/em><\/p>\n

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