Hires Kammie Kobyleski as Director

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Yavapai Community College has created an office of Alumni Affairs.  It has hired Kammie Kobyleski as the Director.  An office of Alumni Affairs is not the norm among community colleges.  However, the decision to create one by College President Penelope Wills is intended to assist the College in maintaining relationships with its graduates.  Wills believes that the Community College is missing out on big opportunities by not having a mechanism in place that allows the College to stay in touch with its alumni.

Ms. Kobyleski graduated from Lindenwood University in St. Charles Missouri.  She worked at Lindenwood for seven years while completing her Masters degree.  She moved on to Arizona State University where the College press release says she was involved in “relationship building, audience engagement and marketing.”  She also worked with recent and longtime alums on career transitions and job search. 

At ASU, she was the Director of Special Programs at the Center for Entrepreneurship and served as a Director of Dean’s Graduate Career Coach of the Graduate Business Career Center through the W.  P.  Carrie School of Business.

One of the biggest challenges facing her at Yavapai community College, in terms of identifying and connecting with alumni, is that she is starting from scratch.