UMaine finds new dean at Montana university

ORONO – Just three days after the University of Maine announced that Montana was snatching away one of the school’s top administrators, it is announced that it is grabbing one from the same state.

On Tuesday, UMaine announced that its vice president for finance and administration was leaving for a job at the University of Montana.

In coincidental retaliation, on Friday, UMaine said it was hiring an administrator from Montana State University to take over as associate dean of students and community life.

“We got even,” UMaine spokesman Joe Carr said jokingly. “They’re probably saying the same thing out there.”

Calli T. Sanders, who was senior associate director of athletics at Montana State, will work at UMaine under Dwight Rideout, dean of students and community life.

At Montana State and in a prior position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Sanders served as the primary liaison between the athletic department and the division of student affairs, according to Carr.

At UMaine, Sanders is to provide leadership in several student services areas, including the counseling center, student employment and volunteer programs. She also is to be involved in the management of the university’s Sexual Assault Awareness Committee and will serve as the administration’s liaison to the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered Allies Council.

Sanders holds a master’s degree in education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a bachelor’s degree in communication from the University of Montana.

She is scheduled to start work in Orono Aug. 15.