Ms. Susan L. Gaudin

Executive Officer, Emeritus

WHEREAS Ms. Susan L. Gaudin has served the University of Alaska Fairbanks with distinction in administration in multiple roles from 2001 to 2020; and

WHEREAS Ms. Gaudin, after a varied career in accounting, worked at UAF as assistant to the director of the Alaska Satellite Facility, assistant to the director of the Tanana Valley Campus and assistant to the vice chancellor of advancement and community engagement, and she then spent the past eight years as executive officer of the Community and Technical College; and

WHEREAS sixty CTC staff and faculty members endorsed Ms. Gaudin’s emeritus status, saying her hard work and professionalism are complemented by a gentle approach that sustained colleagues; and

WHEREAS Ms. Gaudin successfully overcame diverse challenges that ranged from designing new accounting systems to relocating the aviation maintenance program’s aircraft, and members of CTC’s Community Advisory Council praised the clarity and depth of her presentations on the college’s trends, revenues and expenditures; and

WHEREAS Ms. Gaudin’s efforts often went beyond normal job duties as she advanced such efforts as the CTC donor wall at the Barnette Street building;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the University of Alaska Fairbanks expresses its deep appreciation to Ms. Susan L. Gaudin for her extensive contributions to the State of Alaska and to the University; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in further recognition of the invaluable services rendered by Ms. Gaudin and as evidence of the University’s desire that her identification with the University be maintained, hereby confers upon Ms. Susan L. Gaudin the title of Executive Officer, Emeritus; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be appropriately engrossed and signed by the Chancellor as further evidence of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ esteem and respect for Ms. Susan L. Gaudin, and conveyed to Ms. Gaudin on this twenty-third day of May, 2020.