{"id":236366,"date":"2025-10-07T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=236366"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:12:06","slug":"deborah-shelby-retires-after-27-years-in-clas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby-retires-after-27-years-in-clas\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Shelby Retires After 27 Years in CLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Deborah Shelby, assistant dean and chief operating officer in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, retired from UConn on Oct. 1 after 27 years of dedicated service.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236371\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236371 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Shelby\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby-997x665.jpg 997w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/deborah-shelby.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Shelby. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shelby joined CLAS in 1998 and became a central member of the Dean\u2019s Office, providing steady leadership through decades of growth and change. Over the years, she supported five deans and interim deans: Ross MacKinnon, Jeremy Teitelbaum, Davita Silfen-Glasberg, Juli Wade, and most recently, Ofer Harel.\u00a0She also previously served as associate vice provost for academic operations for the University.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her work in CLAS focused on personnel, space, business operations, and the day-to-day\u00a0logistics\u00a0that keep the College running smoothly. She played a key role in the construction and renovation of many CLAS buildings, helping to reshape the campus landscape.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her deep institutional knowledge and strong commitment to the College\u2019s mission helped guide CLAS through\u00a0numerous\u00a0transitions and challenges.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We thank Deborah for her outstanding service and wish her all the best in retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since joining the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1998, Shelby has been a key member of the Dean\u2019s Office and has helped the College navigate nearly three decades of growth and change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":211486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-236366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 02:59:33","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\/236366","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236382,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236366\/revisions\/236382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/211486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236366"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=236366"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=236366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}