University of Kansas Confirms Acting Ombuds After National Search

KU has promoted its Acting University Ombuds, Ada Emmett, to the permanent position. Emmet joined the program in 2019 as a part-time Faculty Ombuds and, less than a year later, stepped up to the interim role. She was selected after a national search that opened in April 2022. The KU Ombuds reports to the provost and practices to IOA standards.

Emmett joined the faculty at KU in 2002 and worked as a librarian before joining the Ombuds Office. She graduated from the University of Michigan and earned her MLIS at the University of Washington. (KU News.)

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