WINONA, Minn. –Winona State University appointed Gale Lanning as interim director of undergraduate admissions. Lanning had been assistant director. The high-pressure job is responsible for recruiting students from a shrinking pool of high school graduates at a time when university funding is increasingly dependent on enrollment growth. Earlier Lanning was at Southeast Minnesota Tech. She holds a master’s degree in school counseling from Winona State and a bachelor’s in sociology from Eastern Connecticut State. Lanningsucceeds Brian Jicinsky, who held the job almost two years.
