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THE NEW SCHOOL NAMES BRYNA SANGER DEPUTY PROVOST
NEW YORK, August 3, 2009 –The New School has named Bryna Sanger senior vice president for Academic Affairs and deputy provost in the university’s newly expanded Office of the Provost led by Tim Marshall. She is a policy and management expert with a focus on city service delivery, leadership, innovation, and performance management. Sanger has been with the university for 33 years and has served in numerous capacities, including dean of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, as well as academic dean and chair of Milano's program in Urban Policy Analysis and Management. “The appointment of Bryna Sanger as deputy provost is yet another benchmark in the development of a robust and effective provost’s office,” said President Bob Kerrey. “Led by Tim Marshall, Bryna joins a team of experienced individuals dedicated to creating a comprehensive and collaborative academic plan for The New School’s future.” As part of an effort to strengthen the Office of the Provost, the deans of the university worked with President Kerrey to empower the provost and his staff to help develop a multi-year planning process for enrollment targets, faculty hiring, curriculum planning, and other issues. As deputy provost, Sanger will focus on building new capacity commensurate with the office’s increased scope of authority, including building the department’s human resources and creating new systems and governance structures to better facilitate academic decision making and shared planning. She will also oversee the work of the office of faculty affairs. “Bryna joins the provost’s office to help fulfill our new mandate to build and implement a shared vision for the university’s academic success,” said Tim Marshall. “Her experience in identifying and creating best practices in institutional management will help us create new and effective models for shared decision making and responsibility. We are excited to welcome her to our team in this new capacity.” “As a long-time member of The New School community, I am optimistic about our future and honored to contribute to the collective effort to create an inclusive academic planning process for the university,” said Sanger. Sanger is a well-known scholar in both public policy and public management. As a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, she examined privatization induced by welfare reform. This work informed her later book, The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization and Welfare Reform (Brookings Institution Press, 2003). As a senior fellow at the Gordon Public Policy Center, she led a project on innovation and leadership. She led a research effort in conjunction with the National Civic League to identify the lessons learned from cities that have exemplary performance measurement systems and citizen engagement. She is also co-author of After the Cure: Managing AIDS and Other Public Health Crises (University Press of Kansas, 2000) and Making Government Work (Jossey-Bass, 1994), both with Martin Levin. Sanger received the Einhorn Research Award from the Academy of Governmental Accountability to study performance measurement in cities around the country. She consults to city and state governments on both public policy and public management, most recently for the Spitzer Administration and the New York City Department of Finance. Sanger is a civic leader and holds leadership positions on the boards of various nonprofit institutions. This year, United Neighborhood Houses honored her as a “New Yorker Who Makes a Difference.” Sanger holds an A.B. with honors from Vassar College and a Ph.D. from The Heller School at Brandeis University. ABOUT THE NEW SCHOOL # # # |
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