MSU’s Office of Public Affairs announces promotions, new staff members

Contact: Sid Salter

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State College’s Workplace of Public Affairs is saying the promotion of two senior employees members and the addition of three different communications professionals to fill employees vacancies.

MSU Chief Communications Officer and OPA Director Sid Salter stated that Harriet V. Laird, the longtime OPA affiliate director, will function the division’s new senior affiliate director whereas MSU’s College Tv Middle Director David Garraway joins the division’s management as OPA’s affiliate director for broadcast and digital media.

“Harriet is a revered administrator on our campus who possesses a wealth of institutional data and has the belief of the campus neighborhood,” stated Salter. “David has led the College Tv Middle to the subsequent degree throughout his tenure and has a lot to supply OPA’s general mission on this expanded function.”

Within the senior affiliate function, Laird works with Salter to steer and coordinate initiatives throughout the numerous OPA items. She gives steerage on information writing and modifying, images, model improvement, adherence to visible id requirements and extra in a staff strategy to finishing up the college’s mission. She has served the college for 14 years.

Previous to becoming a member of MSU, Laird was communications coordinator for Nissan North America in Canton and served a mixed 17 years as public relations director for Hinds Group School and Copiah-Lincoln Group School. The Decatur native has a Bachelor of Science diploma in journalism and Grasp of Science diploma in public relations from the College of Southern Mississippi.

As OPA affiliate director for broadcast and digital media, Garraway will supervise the day-to-day operations of the College Tv Middle, together with MSU’s campus radio station WMSV-FM working with station supervisor Anthony Craven. Along with serving as a technical and artistic useful resource for the workplace, Garraway works with the college’s tv and radio employees to provide high-quality, significant programming designed to coach and inform. He gives management utilizing inventive communications that spotlight MSU’s accomplishments, contributions, and significance to a world viewers. He has led UTC since 2014.

Garraway obtained his Bachelor of Arts diploma in radio, tv, and movie manufacturing and a Grasp of Science diploma in mass communication from the College of Southern Mississippi. He obtained an MSU Grasp of Enterprise Administration diploma in 2015 and is at the moment a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Media and Workforce Growth.

Salter additionally introduced the affiliation of veteran greater training communicator Chris Bryant and graphic designers Sarah Gilliland and Haley Rountree with the division.

Bryant, who has beforehand served MSU on the college’s Raspet Flight Laboratory, is a former analysis communications skilled on the College of Alabama. Gilliland and Rountree are starting their MSU careers.

“Chris will collaborate intently with me and our OPA management staff in creating and implementing MSU’s new branding initiative. Sarah and Haley are each vivid younger graphic designers, and we’re lucky to have them be a part of us,” Salter stated.

Bryant brings greater than 30 years of journalism and better training public relations expertise to the function. A former newspaper reporter at The Dothan (Ala.) Eagle, Bryant joined UA in 1999 as a senior communication specialist and later served as assistant director of media relations, director of analysis communications and interim director of media relations.

Bryant joined MSU as a technical author for Raspet in 2020. A product of the Mississippi neighborhood faculty system, Bryant attended Itawamba Group School earlier than transferring to UA-Birmingham the place he accomplished a Bachelor of Arts in communications.

OPA’s award-winning employees gives management for strategic and disaster communications; advertising and marketing and branding; information and media relations; university-wide publications together with MSU’s Alumnus journal; and digital and social media content material improvement together with the college’s web site. OPA writers, editors, photographers and graphic designers help these areas and implement and oversee the college’s branding, together with the visible id requirements.

As well as, OPA gives administrative management to MSU’s College Tv Middle and campus radio station WMSV-FM 91.1.

MSU is Mississippi’s main college, out there on-line at www.msstate.edu.