{"id":3579,"date":"2023-06-08T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2023-07-05T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:00:09","slug":"acc-announces-new-employee-relations-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/acc-announces-new-employee-relations-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC announces new Employee Relations Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/AW-Headshot-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3581\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin Community College District announces Austin Wood as the college\u2019s next Employee Relations Officer (ERO). In this role within the Office of Equal Opportunity Compliance (Office of EOC), Wood will coordinate the employee grievance process and address concerns districtwide in collaboration with key college partners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to build on the success of the inaugural year of the ERO and continue to lay the foundation of supporting employees to build a positive work environment for all to succeed,\u201d says Wood. \u201cThe College has made significant gains to provide equitable and transparent practices across the district and I\u2019m eager to help make a lasting impact on ACC work culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wood\u2019s career at ACC started in January 2010 in the Office of Student Life. For the past five years, he served as the College\u2019s first investigator with the Office of EOC. In this role, Wood helped facilitate a culture of reporting and provided resources and support to students and employees facing obstacles impacting their academic and workplace experience, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wood is a Texas native. He received his master\u2019s degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Mississippi and his bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from St. Edward\u2019s University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of June 1, 2023, Wood assumed the role of ACC\u2019s ERO after former ERO Kelly Torrico <a href=\"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/acc-names-kelly-torrico-as-new-vice-chancellor-of-human-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>accepted the position of vice chancellor of Human Resources<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District announces Austin Wood as the college\u2019s next Employee Relations Officer (ERO). In this role within the Office of Equal Opportunity Compliance (Office of EOC), Wood will coordinate the employee grievance process and address concerns districtwide in collaboration with key college partners.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m excited to build on the success of the inaugural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,27,42],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-news","tag-employees","tag-hr","tag-new-hire","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infohub.austincc.edu\/shared-governance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}