{"id":118203,"date":"2016-10-18T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=118203"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:30:02","slug":"dean-heller-appointed-interim-director-hartford-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/10\/dean-heller-appointed-interim-director-hartford-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Heller Appointed Interim Director of the Hartford Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118205 alignright img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nina-Heller-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nina Rovinelli Heller\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nina-Heller.jpg 295w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nina-Heller-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nina-Heller-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Nina-Heller-64x64.jpg 64w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 295px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 295\/300;\" \/>Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Mun Choi\u00a0announced that Dr. Nina Rovinelli Heller, the Dean and Zachs Endowed Professor of Social Work, will serve as Interim Director of the Hartford Campus in addition to leading the School of Social Work. \u201cShe is a talented and committed leader who will oversee the transition of the campus to downtown Hartford, assure the campus and its programs and services are strong and effectively support faculty and students, and continue the development of important partnerships to strengthen our commitment to education, research, and outreach in the Capitol Region and beyond,\u201d said Provost Choi. The University will conduct a national search in 2017 in order to have a permanent director in place by the fall term.<\/p>\n<p>In Heller\u2019s message to the SSW faculty and staff she said, \u201cI have shared with those in the Provost\u2019s Office my strong commitment to the School of Social Work and our need to continue to move forward with the progress we are making in terms of our scholarly work, our visibility within the university and nationally, and with new community engaged, interdepartmental and interprofessional partnerships.\u201d At the same time, Dr. Heller looks forward to the opportunity to collaborate with other members of the Hartford Campus leadership team and units and with their faculty, staff, and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Mun Choi\u00a0announced that Dr. Nina Rovinelli Heller, the Dean and Zachs Endowed Professor of Social Work, will serve as Interim Director of the Hartford Campus in addition to leading the School of Social Work. \u201cShe is a talented and committed leader who will oversee the transition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":118205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-118203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-04 05:26:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/118205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118203"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=118203"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}