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About. Associate Vice President for Facilities. Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. 30 years of experience managing facilities and construction. 25 years in higher education and academic medical...
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- Wesleyan University
- Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States
Dec 3, 2020 · For 19 years, Joyce Topshe took on the role of managing Wesleyan’s construction services, environmental services, rental properties, and Physical Plant-Facilities. Now in her 20th year of working at Wesleyan, the associate vice president for facilities is powering through “the most challenging year of my career,” she said.
Aug 17, 2020 · Andy Tanaka, senior vice president, chief administrative officer and treasurer, appointed three staff members to plan the operations and assist with staffing: Joyce Walter, director of the University Health Center; Lisa Brommer, associate vice president for Human Resources; and Joyce Topshe, associate vice president for Facilities.
- Recruiting + Retaining Future Leaders
- Deferred Maintenance
- Getting A Seat at The Table
- Partnerships on Campus
- Looking Ahead to The Future
Significant staffing shortages in the facilities industry was the first topic up for discussion. As Baby Boomers gear up for retirement, the need to groom the next generation of leaders grows stronger by the day. According to Bollman, the traditional job description for facilities managers has broadened considerably; “much more is being asked of fa...
Amid the session, the group’s opinion was unanimous on deferred maintenance: It’s an unsexy topic, and everyone is tired of hearing about it. The solution? Many facilities leaders are doing away with the term entirely in an effort to reframe the issue, though that approach appears individualized to each university. At Drexel, Moore’s team has rebra...
It’s high time for facilities leaders to get a seat at the table and help shape the vision of their university. According to Guckert, earning a seat at the table begins with being viewed as contributors and a relevant asset. “Facilities leaders tend to want to do our work quietly for the good of our institution. However, the responsibility of commu...
The conversation on getting a seat at the table paved a natural segue to the next topic: building strategic partnerships. At Michigan State, Bollman looks at the university as a living lab with endless assets that the academic and research departments can take advantage of. When the engineering division designed a unique design for asphalt and conc...
After covering so much ground, Strazdas posed a question to the audience: “If we’re so busy with all of these pressing needs, how do we plan for the future?” Moore compared the task ahead to building a plane while it’s moving down the runway. Still, he believes the outlook is optimistic for facilities leaders who “utilize all the tools in their too...
Sep 3, 2009 · Holly Jacobs from the Manchester Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) left, teaches Joyce Topshe, associate vice president for facilities, at right, how to properly give a “head-to-toe assessment” on an accident victim.
Feb 17, 2014 · Campus labor activists affiliated with the United Student Labor Action Coalition (USLAC) met last week with Associate Vice President for Facilities Joyce Topshe in an effort to come to agreement over a reconstitution of the Code Compliance Board.
May 16, 2019 · Topshe addressed Physical Plant understaffing in an email to The Argus a week before the new hires were announced. “The Physical Plant Department has 4 vacancies,” Topshe wrote. “We are currently assessing how best to fill them. We expect progress on this in the coming weeks.”
