Secretary positions at NIU will officially undergo title changes.

According to Steve Cunningham, associate vice president of Administration and Human Resources, changing secretary titles is due to an interest in updating the titles to be more consistent with the complexity and scope of responsibilities associated with secretarial positions throughout the university.

The new titles are office support assistant, office support associate, office support specialist, office manager and office administrator.

“There has been a long-standing interest among the universities and employees appointed to secretarial positions to update the title nomenclature to be more consistent with contemporary office environments and practices,” Cunningham said in an e-mail. “The title of secretary has become somewhat outmoded for employees providing various types of office assistant and administrative professional functions.”

The new title changes were developed by the State Universities Civil Service System, a state agency that coordinates civil service employment rules and regulations across the Illinois Public University sector.

Cunningham said the secretary title changes will be implemented at NIU on April 15.

In addition to individual secretary positions being renamed, NIU’s Secretarial Advisory Council will be renamed to the Administrative Professionals Advisory Council (APAC).

All comments are moderated before being published. We will not edit your comments, but we also will not approve those that are abusive, off-topic, attack another poster or contain information we know to be libelous or false.

During peak weekday viewing times, most comments will be reviewed within six hours. For more detailed information, click here.

After submitting your comment, check below for a confirmation message.

• Your name:
• Enter text from image:
  

• Your comment:

* 300-character count. HTML formatting will not display.