CAPE RESIDENT NAMED PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Michele Matzat of Cape Girardeau has been named a program coordinator in the Student Activities Center of the Coyote Student Center at the University of South Dakota.

She began work in July as coordinator of co-curricular programs.

Matzat will advise the program council, oversee the student center outing center and advise the Dakota Days committee. She will oversee the Coyote Student Center summer program and serve as a consultant to student organizations. In addition, she will design and implement strategies to increase the level of collaborative programming among student groups and academic units.

After earning a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis in 1990, Matzat received a master of science degree in education (college student personnel) from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1992.

She has worked in student orientation programs, university programming and parents programs at Southern Illinois University and was a resident adviser for the Residential Life Office at Washington University. She has also been an instructor of orientation leadership development courses and staff mentor for first-year experience programs.