PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 29, 2021

Erik Smetana, Executive Director of People and Engagement at Vanderbilt University, to Serve on CUPA-HR Board of Directors

Erik Smetana, executive director of people and engagement at Vanderbilt University, has been selected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). He will join the board on July 1.

Smetana has been a member of CUPA-HR for 15 years. He was selected to participate in the Emerging CUPA-HR Leaders program in 2017-18. He has served on the association’s research advisory committee, learning and professional development committee, and ad hoc HR analytics committee.

Smetana joined the HR team at Vanderbilt in 2018. Prior to that role, he served at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Missouri System.

 

About CUPA-HR

CUPA-HR is higher ed HR. We serve higher education by providing the knowledge, resources, advocacy and connections to achieve organizational and workforce excellence. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and serving over 33,000 HR professionals and other campus leaders at nearly 2,000 member institutions and organizations around the country and abroad, the association offers learning and professional development programs, higher education salary and benefits data, extensive online resources and just-in-time regulatory and legislative information.

 

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