Westminster College Appoints First Ombuds

L. Reuben Mitchell has been named the first Campus Ombuds for the private liberal arts college in Salt Lake City, Utah. He serves about 500 faculty and staff, and provides the service remotely. Mitchell also currently serves as the Ombuds at Scripps Research Institute outside San Diego, California.

Mitchell has four decades years of experience providing leadership and organizational development to private liberal arts colleges, major research universities, government agencies, K–12 schools, law enforcement agencies, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. For the past 14 years he has worked at Scripps, where, in addition to serving as the Ombuds, he is also the Director of Employee Development. (Westminster Ombuds; LinkedIn.)