As Vice President for Human Resources, Dr. Vaillancourt provides strategic leadership in the areas of human capital and organizational culture. She has broad responsibilities for competitive compensation and benefits programs; innovative faculty and staff recruitment and hiring support; employment-related policies that foster organizational effectiveness; work-life, employee wellness and productivity programs; affirmative action planning and reporting, equal opportunity investigations; and professional development that supports management effectiveness and individual success.
In addition to providing oversight for the Department of Human Resources and Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office, she is a co-principal investigator of the University’s ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program and teaches in the School of Public Administration and Policy within the Eller College of Management.
Prior to joining the University of Arizona in 1996, Dr. Vaillancourt held roles including, Assistant to the President for the University of Colorado System, Research Administrator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine, and District Director for the American Cancer Society. She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado’s Graduate School of Public Affairs.
Education
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, MA in Public Policy and Administration
- University of Colorado’s Graduate School of Public Affairs, PhD
