Gloria Reynolds Email & Phone Number

Northern Colorado

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• As the first-stop sounding board and trusted adviser to two UNC presidents, my responsibilities included facilitating the executive team’s work and leadership development, coordinating university-wide planning.
• Representing the president on the design team for an award-winning $74 million multiuse building at the heart of campus;
• Staffing the search to replace the university’s retiring president and facilitating the presidential transition;
• Developing and facilitating a university-wide 10-year visioning process;
• Facilitating a multi-division task force to integrate enrollment management, marketing and recruitment efforts;
• Serving on the steering committee for the university’s successful reaccreditation and as one of the primary authors of the self-study—for a second time.

Responsible for the university’s internal and external communication, including media relations, marketing, creative services and web design. Led the 11-member division through a transition from traditional print-focused work to integrated multimedia marketing and communication while continuing to serve as the president’s speechwriter and primary.

• As the university’s primary spokesperson, crisis communication manager and president’s speechwriter, I was a member of the executive leadership team and the public information officer for the university’s emergency.
• Coordinating the university’s repatriation of a totem pole to the Tlingit Nation of Alaska;
• Redesigning the alumni magazine and serving as its editor;
• Staffing an 18-month university-wide process to develop an academic plan; and
• Serving on the steering committee for the university’s successful reaccreditation and as one of the lead writers of the self-study.

Moved to Colorado for a three-month gig as the Greeley Tribune’s lone night shift police reporter and eventually convinced the editor to keep me on as the higher education beat reporter.

Covered the Ohio Senate and House of Representatives for the 1990s online news pioneer, Hannah News Service. As a staff writer and policy researcher at Ohio Environmental News Service, I specialized in clean water issues and the development of state and national water quality regulations.

M.A., Journalism

B.A., English/Writing