Colorado State University Names First Faculty Ombuds

CSU has expanded its Office of the Ombuds and Employee Assistance Program with the appointment of Kathy Rickard.  As a part-time Ombuds, she will work with the academic staff of the land grant university in Ft. Collins.  “I am very pleased to welcome Kathy in this new, important role serving faculty at CSU,” said University Ombuds Lanai Greenhalgh. “Her knowledge of CSU and deep understanding of faculty issues is an asset to the office and the university as a whole.” 

A clinical psychologist by training, Rickard has been a professor in the CSU Department of Psychology for three decades.  She graduated from the University of Alabama and earned a MS and PhD at the University of Georgia.  (CSU Source.)

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