NEWS EVENT

New Director of Academic Support for Columbus Campus

Columbus, Ga., Sept. 23, 2009 – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide has announced the appointment of Linda M. Campbell as the director of academic support for the Columbus Campus.

Campbell is a seasoned executive coach and management turnaround specialist with particular expertise in organizational cultural challenges. Early in her career, she earned her certifications in Professional Selling Skills with the Xerox Corporation and excelled in product line sales. Campbell subsequently moved on to selling services and worked for two leading air cargo companies, opening new territories that grew in excess of 30% annually and exceeded sales goals at 140% of plan.

In her work as a Training Consultant with a firm of Industrial Psychologists, Campbell delved deeply into the human side of quality and later took a position as National Training Director. Campbell then established a nationwide consulting practice focused on developing organizational capacity and grew that practice over 50% per year over a period of seven years. Her clients included organizations both large and small in the public and private sector, including clients in aviation, universities, manufacturing, and more.

Campbell established a “Quality through Empowerment Program” that earned her client the Governor’s Sterling Award for Quality and the Industry Week Award for Quality. The Industry Week assessment team cited her training program as ‘best of the best”. When former President Bush called for the federalization of our airports after 9/11, Campbell answered the call to service by helping to establish new policies and procedures for this new agency and was responsible for 2 regions with a staff of 2,700.

Campbell holds a DD from AIHT, an MSM from Cardinal Stritch University and a BA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. In addition she holds dozens of certifications, particularly in the areas of psychological instruments, organizational assessments and multi-dimensional skill assessments.

The Columbus Campus, located in Columbus, Ga., serves the greater Columbus area and serves students from the aviation and aerospace industry, in addition to the general business community. The university offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate degree programs, which can be located by visiting worldwide.erau.edu. For more information on Embry-Riddle’s Columbus Campus, call 706-568-5485 or e-mail the campus staff at columbus.center@erau.edu.

Embry-Riddle Worldwide began in 1970 as a branch of the Daytona Beach Campus in Ft. Rucker, AL, with 20 students, primarily military working adults. Since then, the program has become one of the largest off-campus, regionally accredited colleges in the United States, with over 45,000 alumni. The Worldwide organization educates more than 27,000 students through classroom, online, or hybrid undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering, educating more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs. Doctoral programs in aviation and in engineering physics are pending approval by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) for the University to offer programs at the doctoral level. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, AZ, and Daytona Beach, FL, through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.