Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus
Names Peg Byron as Public Relations Director
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta or Helen Saffran
June, 2002 |
Brooklyn, N.Y. - Peg Byron has been named
public relations director for Long Island University's Brooklyn
Campus – one of the fastest-growing and most ethnically diverse
campuses in New York and part of the eighth-largest independent
university in the country.
"'Magic,' is how experts in higher education have described this
extraordinary campus and the success it brings to a diverse community
of students," Byron said, adding, "I am thrilled to be part
of the magic that is LIU."
"The great mix of hardworking students in honors and other programs,
including single mothers, new immigrants, international students,
and many who are first in their families to attend college, is inspiring,"
she said.
Gale Stevens Haynes, provost of the Campus, said, "We are very
excited to have Peg join our team, bringing both her commitment to
social justice and her communications expertise – assets that
will fuel our mission to provide a quality education to the urban
community that is our home."
Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, Long Island University opened
its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time
when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial
and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled
at the university's three residential and three regional campuses,
including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus.
Byron joins Long Island University after launching the communications
department for Lambda Legal, the national civil rights litigation
group for lesbians, gay men, the transgendered, and people with
HIV and AIDS. Before directing that department for six years,
she was assistant communications director for a major philanthropy,
The Commonwealth Fund. Prior to that, she was a news reporter
for United Press International and other media, including The
Village Voice, where she wrote the first major report ever about
women and AIDS. Subsequently, she won a 1989 Knight Journalism
Fellowship at the University of Michigan and a 1991 Front Page
Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York. |
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