Press Releases

February 12, 1996
TOP ADMINISTRATOR AT Southampton Graduate Campus RETIRES

Contact: Jane Finalborgo
(516) 287-8313

Ellen Avenoso, a top administrator at Southampton Graduate Campus who shaped the award-winning Freshman Program and expanded the College's Cooperative Education Program, retired on February 2 after 13 years with the College.

Avenoso began her career with the College as a graduate assistant. Her first administrative position was Director of the Freshman Program. She was later promoted to Director of Student Support Services, with responsibility for the Freshman Program, Co-op, Career Development and Counseling. In 1989 she was appointed Dean for the LIU Plan, taking on the additional responsibilities of overseeing the Study Center, HEOP and Advising.

Avenoso shaped the award-winning Freshman Program, strengthened the Co-op Program by increasing placements and adding international placements, helped procure several grants and awards for the College, redesigned the Abney Peak Building and published a retention study of co-op students based on her work at the College. She was an officer for eight years with the N.Y. State Cooperative Education Association, and she served as the representative from New England and New York to the National Cooperative Education Association.

"The strengths of the programs Ellen has supervised -- Co-op, Career Planning, and the Freshman Program, to name a few -- illustrate her multiple talents as an administrator and educator. She will be greatly missed," said Provost Tim Bishop.

Avenoso retired February 2 and announced that she and her husband Frank will spend six months in the South of France and then relocate to Charleston, South Carolina.