Seattle University Selects Ombuds

Sue Theiss has been appointed the next Ombudsperson for the private, Jesuit university in Washington state. She will serve faculty and staff is in a full-time role that has been significantly restructured since initially established in 2012 as a part-time position serving only faculty.

Theiss comes to Seattle University from Oregon State University, where she established the Ombuds program in 2011. She also was the founding Ombuds at the University of Arkansas and co-chaired the Ombuds program at the University of Arizona. Most recently, she has also provided Ombuds services to employees at Milwaukee Area Technical College. A frequent speaker and trainer, she co-developed and presented the first core course for IOA on "Theory and Applications for the Organizational Ombudsperson."

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