WINONA, Minn. – The events director at Saint Mary’s University, Lynette Johnson, now is wearing a second cap. She has new responsibilities: To nurture the arts on campus in the wake of massive curricular cutbacks. How to do this? Through student clubs in the performing arts and bringing local artists to campus to visit with students. This co-curricular arts initiative will be under the campus Office of Mission and Student Affairs, in lieu of former faculty-staffed academic departments. Johnson holds a Winona State University degree in recreation and tourism and has worked at Catholic Charities in Winona and also at Home and Community Options She has a master’s degree in human resources in progress at Saint Mary’s.
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Johnson. Her new job: Find alternate avenues for an arts presence on campus.