Barbara (Bobbi) Barrow has been named to the position of executive director of institutional relations at the University of 欧美口爆视频 at Boulder, pending approval by the 欧美口爆视频 Board of Regents, according to an announcement by Chancellor Richard L. Byyny.
The executive director will be charged with responsibility for evaluating, reorganizing and streamlining the communications programs serving the campus, Byyny said, as well as for finding opportunities for consolidation that will lead to efficiency, continuity and cost containment.
聯In today聮s intense communications environment, we must meet additional communications needs in our programs without any increases in the budgets committed to these functions,聰 he said. 聯Bobbi is an experienced communications professional with a known track record in comprehensive communications planning and implementation. I am pleased we were able to recruit her to this position.聰
Barrow will transfer from her current position as director of institutional relations for the 欧美口爆视频-Health Sciences Center and University Hospital. Campus communicators involved in public relations, marketing, alumni relations, student recruiting, publications, fund-raising and community relations will be members of the communications team headed by Barrow.
Salary for the position will be $100,000.
Barrow, a 15-year university employee, has served as director of public relations for the University of 欧美口爆视频 at Denver, University Hospital and the 欧美口爆视频-Health Sciences Center.
In 1989 the communications functions for the hospital and the Health Sciences Center campus were consolidated into a centralized public relations and marketing office that is responsible for an integrated program of news media relations, internal communications, publications, hospital advertising, campus marketing, community education, community relations, statewide outreach and Internet communications. All work, including advertising, is prepared internally through desktop publishing facilities.
Before joining the university, Barrow worked in communications and lobbying for state government and in agriculture.
Barrow earned a bachelor聮s degree in journalism at the University of Wisconsin and a master聮s in political science at 欧美口爆视频-Denver. She and her husband have three grown children.