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Academic Career & Executive Search (ACES) Places Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX at the University of Nevada, Reno

(June 2023, WEST HARTFORD, CT) Following a national search, Academic Career & Executive Search (ACES), a leading higher education focused executive search firm, announced the successful placement of Zeva Edmondson securing the role as Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Title IX at University of Nevada, Reno (UNR).

Zeva Edmondson has extensive experience in leading, monitoring and managing university compliance with Title IX programming. She joins UNR from the University of North Texas where she has been the Title IX Coordinator since 2021. She has also served as Title IX Coordinator at Tennessee Tech University and was Executive Director at Stewart-Marchman-ACT in Daytona Beach, Fla., where she managed administrative and operational components of the Rape Crisis Center. Zeva was the Director of the Victim Service Center of Central Florida and was a Captain in charge of the Support Services Bureau of the Vanderbilt University Police. Prior to these positions, Zeva was a Deputy Sheriff with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando, Fla. for more than 20 years. She will begin at the University on June 19.

The University of Nevada, Reno, is a public research university that is committed to the promise of a future powered by knowledge. Nevada’s historic land-grant university was founded in 1874, and currently serves 20,000 students. The University is a comprehensive, doctoral university, classified as an R1 institution with very high research activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and earned the Carnegie Community Engagement classification. More than $800 million in advanced labs, residence halls and facilities has been invested on campus since 2009. It is home to the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Wolf Pack Athletics, maintains a statewide outreach mission and presence through programs such as the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Small Business Development Center, Nevada Seismological Laboratory.

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As a woman owned firm focused on inclusivity, 66% of their placements are women and/or from underrepresented groups.

Contact Jennifer Muller, Managing Partner, at 860-740-2600 or Jennifer@ACESrch.com, or visit https://acesrch.com/.