{"id":2114,"date":"2026-08-10T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:36:29","slug":"interim-chief-communications-officer-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/2026\/interim-chief-communications-officer-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Chief Communications Officer Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Interim Chief Communications Officer Announced\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To all members of the Carleton community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am pleased to inform you&nbsp;that&nbsp;Christina Flavell will assume&nbsp;the role of&nbsp;Interim Chief Communications Officer and Associate Vice-President (Communications and Public Affairs), effective September 1, 2026 for a four-month term ending December 31, 2026.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/2026\/tony-frost-announces-retirement\/\">Per my message of March 17, 2026<\/a>, Tony Frost (CCO &amp; AVP) is scheduled to retire on August 31, 2026. Christina&#8217;s appointment ensures continuity in the leadership of the Department of University&nbsp;Communications while we undertake the search for a new CCO &amp; AVP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christina brings more than 25 years of experience in communications and marketing, including 15 years in people leadership roles. Since joining Carleton in September 2021 as Director, Marketing and Brand Strategy, she has worked closely with senior leaders across the university to advance Carleton&#8217;s strategic priorities for reputation and enrolment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a respected member of the Department of University Communications leadership team, Christina has also provided strategic counsel on a range of key university communications issues and initiatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join me in congratulating Christina on this appointment&nbsp;and thanking her for agreeing to serve Carleton in this capacity. I am sure that she can count on our collective support in the new role.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me use this opportunity to, once again, express our gratitude to Tony Frost for almost six years of dedicated service to Carleton and to wish him all the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sincerely,<br><br><strong>Wisdom J. Tettey<\/strong><br>President and Vice-Chancellor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all members of the Carleton community, I am pleased to inform you&nbsp;that&nbsp;Christina Flavell will assume&nbsp;the role of&nbsp;Interim Chief Communications Officer and Associate Vice-President (Communications and Public Affairs), effective September 1, 2026 for a four-month term ending December 31, 2026.&nbsp;Per my message of March 17, 2026, Tony Frost (CCO &amp; AVP) is scheduled to retire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messages-speeches"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}