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Shinberger Retirement Reception Dec. 9
December 5, 2022
MACOMB, IL - - Darcie Shinberger, assistant vice president for University Communications and Marketing at Western Illinois University, will retire after 30 years of service, effective Dec. 31. A reception will be held from 3-4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 in the Sherman Hall Auditorium (third floor).
Shinberger was named assistant vice president of University Relations (now University Communications & Marketing) in July 2012. The Division of Communications, led by Shinberger, was established in 2020, and was then renamed, in Fall 2021, the Division of Communications, Marketing and Media Relations, which includes University Communications, University Marketing, University Photography and Design, University Television and University Printing and Mailing Center.
Shinberger joined University Relations as an editorial writer and public relations specialist in March 1994, and was named director in February 2008, after serving as interim director/assistant director for a year. Shinberger took over the direction of University Photography in January 2006, University Television in July 2012 and University Marketing and University Printing & Mailing Center in January 2020. Prior to joining University Relations, she was a reporter for the Peoria Journal Star and the former Macomb Journal, and also worked for a semester part-time in the psychology department.
Posted By: University Communications (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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