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Vice President for Business Affairs Leslie T. Chapman was appointed to the position of Vice President for Business Affairs in June of 1992. Chapman has been a member of the Lake Forest community since 1974. For 13 years prior, she had served as Assistant and Associate Vice President for Business Affairs at Lake Forest College. From 1996 to 1999 she was chosen as the national small college representative of the TIAA-CREF National Advisory Committee. Chapman earned her bachelor's degree from Lake Forest College and holds a master's degree (with honors) from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, serving on the Board from 1986 to 1993. She currently serves as Treasurer for the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society.	Leslie T. Chapman '79 Vice President for Business Affairs
Dean of Students Rob Flot was appointed Dean of Students in June of 2009. He had previously served as the director of the Intercultural Relations Office at the College.	Rob Flot Dean of Students
Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Pam Gerard began at Lake Forest College on May 2006, and brings with her 20 years of experience in fundraising. Pam has a solid record of developing and working on successful capital campaigns and development programs for universities and hospitals. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, Pam began her career with the Salvation Army in Nashville, where she spent nine years as Director of Development. She also worked in annual giving for the University of Rochester and, from 1995 to 2000, as Development Director for Vanderbilt University’s School of Nursing and School of Medicine’s surgical division. As Vice President for Philanthropy at Lake Forest Hospital, Pam directed a highly successful capital campaign that, among other accomplishments, raised $13,500,000 in less than 18 months and pulled in the largest-ever outright gifts and pledges. She also started the hospital's first ongoing major gifts program.	Pamela Gerard Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations
Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing Elizabeth (Liz) Libby was appointed Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing in June 2009. She joined Lake Forest College as Director of Communications and Marketing in February 2005. Prior to joining the College she served for several years as Director of Communications for Mayor Daley’s Office of Workforce Development in Chicago. For two years preceding that appointment Libby worked as a marketing specialist in that office. Libby's experience includes serving as press secretary and project coordinator for a Chicago alderman and as a marketing professional for Women Employed, a Chicago organization dedicated to improving the economic status of women and removing barriers to economic equity. She earned her bachelor’s degree in American history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida in Gainesville.	Liz Libby Director of Communications and Marketing
Provost and Dean of the Faculty Janet McCracken joined the faculty of Lake Forest College in 1993, teaching in the department of philosophy. Before her arrival at Lake Forest, she received her B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Vassar College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. She received a university-wide teaching award as a teaching assistant at UT, later teaching there and at Austin Community College. McCracken specializes in aesthetics—the study of art and beauty—including environmental aesthetics, as well as in the philosophy of economics, human nature, and design; ancient philosophy, early modern philosophy, and philosophy of the emotions. She has chaired the college’s Program in Greece and Turkey and directed it overseas twice. McCracken has also chaired the philosophy department and the Curricular Policies Committee, and served on many other college governance committees and task forces, including the College Council, the Academic Resources and Review Committee, and two planning task forces. McCracken is the author of two books, most recently Taste and the Household: Domestic Aesthetics and Moral Reasoning, and several scholarly articles and book reviews. She began her term as Provost and Dean of Faculty in July 2005.	Janet McCracken Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Vice President for Admissions and Career Services William G. Motzer, Jr. was appointed to the position of Vice President for Admissions and Career Services in June of 2002. Motzer came to Lake Forest College in 1992 from North Central College, where he served in the admissions department for ten years. Prior to joining Lake Forest, he held the position of Director of Admissions at North Central College. In 1994, he served as Chair of the Financial-Aid and Admissions Help-Line for the Illinois Association of College Admission Counseling. Motzer holds a bachelor's degree in Education from North Central College and a master's degree in business administration from The Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.	William G. Motzer Jr. Vice President for Admissions and Career Services
Assistant to the President Elizabeth (Liz) Palm joined the Lake Forest College community as Executive Assistant to the President in June 2007. Prior to joining the College she assisted executives at Komatsu America Corp.’s headquarters in Vernon Hills, IL since 1999. Liz is a part-time student at the College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL and is pursuing a degree in Elementary Education. She plans to finish her degree at Lake Forest College.	Elizabeth Palm Executive Assistant to the President
Athletics Director Jacqueline Slaats has been Lake Forest's Director of Athletics and Head Women's Basketball Coach since the fall of 1992. Prior to her position as Director, Slaats served as the Forester's Head Basketball and Volleyball Coach from 1986 to 1991. She was named Midwest Conference Coach of the Year in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, and 2007, Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Division III Coach of the Year in 1992, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2007, and she is a three-time American Women's Sports Federation All-American Coach (1990, 1992, and 1994). Slaats received her bachelor's degree in Physical Education with an emphasis in coaching from Iowa State University. She earned a master's degree in Education with an emphasis in Academic Counseling, Sports Psychology, and Athletic Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.	Jacqueline Slaats Athletic Director