Cynthia Lawson, who leads marketing and communications at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is slated to join DePaul University in April as VP of its office of PR and communications.
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The 62-year-old Lawson, who makes the move April 2 to the 25,000-student Catholic institution in Chicago, will be the school’s spokeswoman and coordinate PR for the university, including crisis communications, internal and executive communications.
She previously led university relations at Texas A&M, College Station for six years, including crisis communications for the 1999 bonfire collapse that killed 12 students.
Earlier posts included the Univ. of Arkansas, Culver Academies and Eastern Michigan Univ.
On the academic side, Ketchum's Ron Paul moved to DePaul in August to head its graduate PR and advertising program.