Spring Break
Student Activities assistant dean moves on
by Anya Bergman
News | 10/30/07
Posted online at 3:47 AM EST on 10/30/07
/ Last updated at 7:45 PM EST on 10/30/07
Sarah Bordeleau, who spent three years as assistant director of Student Activities, is leaving Brandeis next week to work at American Program Bureau, a Newton-based agency that organizes speaker events and creative programming.
Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes said Bordeleau's last day is November 5. Grimes said she will lead a search in the next few months for Bordeleau's replacement, a process she hopes to complete by Jan. 1st.
In the interim, Student Activities adviser Sarah Richardson and Grimes will work with Student Events, and the rest of the staff will work on Bordeleau's other projects, Grimes said.
Grimes said Bordeleau "has always and is always efficient, reliable and always goes the extra mile."
Bordeleau said she will begin as a sales associate at APB, which works to bring universities and corporations high-profile speakers for events such as commencements. Bordeleau will then spend six months to one year training, "in hopes of becoming a sales agent." She added that she couldn't have gotten her new job if she had not had her job here, and that "everything flows together."
Bordeleau came to Brandeis in August 2004 after working as a graduate assistant at Simmons College and at the Wentworth Insititue of Technology in its student activities departments. She also held a summer job working for Northeastern University campus center operations.
Bordeleau said that her favorite activities were working on Student Events to plan the fall and spring concerts, working on Sundeis Film Festival, Louie Louie, Bronstein week, Springfest-a day of concerts on the Great Lawn in the spring-and the Festival of the Arts.
She said that she is moving on to try new things and gain experience, but that she will still get to work with students in her new job. She explained, however, that she will work from the perspective of an agent and do things like booking speakers, rather than helping students plan the event.
Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes said Bordeleau's last day is November 5. Grimes said she will lead a search in the next few months for Bordeleau's replacement, a process she hopes to complete by Jan. 1st.
In the interim, Student Activities adviser Sarah Richardson and Grimes will work with Student Events, and the rest of the staff will work on Bordeleau's other projects, Grimes said.
Grimes said Bordeleau "has always and is always efficient, reliable and always goes the extra mile."
Bordeleau said she will begin as a sales associate at APB, which works to bring universities and corporations high-profile speakers for events such as commencements. Bordeleau will then spend six months to one year training, "in hopes of becoming a sales agent." She added that she couldn't have gotten her new job if she had not had her job here, and that "everything flows together."
Bordeleau came to Brandeis in August 2004 after working as a graduate assistant at Simmons College and at the Wentworth Insititue of Technology in its student activities departments. She also held a summer job working for Northeastern University campus center operations.
Bordeleau said that her favorite activities were working on Student Events to plan the fall and spring concerts, working on Sundeis Film Festival, Louie Louie, Bronstein week, Springfest-a day of concerts on the Great Lawn in the spring-and the Festival of the Arts.
She said that she is moving on to try new things and gain experience, but that she will still get to work with students in her new job. She explained, however, that she will work from the perspective of an agent and do things like booking speakers, rather than helping students plan the event.
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