Announcing Four New Members of Vermont State University Leadership


We are pleased to announce four Vermont State University leadership appointments.

Sarah Truckle will join us as the Vice President of Business Operations on January 3. Sarah has worked for the State of Vermont in a variety of roles, most recently as Director of Programs and Strategic Operations in the Agency of Human Services. Much of her work has focused on fiscal management, operations, process improvement, problem solving, and policy development.

Littleton Tyler will be the Assistant Vice President of Finance and Compliance. Lit has worked with the Vermont State Colleges in several roles in the past fourteen years. Most recently he worked on transformation as Lead Financial Analyst and previously as Dean of Administration at Vermont Technical College.

Sara Kinerson is the Assistant Vice President of Advising and Career Development. She has been in this role in an interim capacity since September and before that was the Director of Advising at NVU-Johnson. She has helped with the student success staffing organization plan and has been part of the Advising, Academic Support, ADA transformation sub-team.

Jennifer-Kristina Jones, after also serving in an interim role, is the Assistant Vice President of Academic Support and Educational Opportunity Programs. Jennifer was the Director of the Academic Support Center and Success Coach at Castleton and has previously served as Director of Upward Bound, also at Castleton.

Please join us in congratulating Sarah, Lit, Sara, and Jen!

organizational chart for the vermont state university leadership. most of the positions are shown as being filled except for the AVP of Enrollment Marketing under New Student Success.
Organizational chart showing the President's Cabinet. The members are as follows:
VP of Academic Affairs/Provost: 
Nolan Atkins
VP of Business & Operations: 
Sarah Truckle
Dir of Online Prog. Admin: 
Bobbi Jo Carter
Chief Diversity Officer: 
Jae Basiliere
VP of Student Success: 
Kelley Beckwith
VP of Admissions & Enrollment Services: Maurice Ouimet
AVP of IR & Plan, Chief Data Scientist: Irene Irudayam
AVP Adv. & Alum Relations:
Lauren Philie
AVP of Work Community & Eco Dev: Jayshree Bhat 
AVP People & Culture: 
Lindsey Melo
AVP of Marketing & Communications: Sylvia Plumb