Anne Lamkin Ziemniak
Assistant director for the Office of Parent Programs since September 2006, Anne Lamkin Ziemniak strives to help parents help their students.
Having worked with parents for two years now, Ziemniak has insight about their needs. “The parents of today are really engaged,” she says. “Part of my job is educating parents on the best way to help students grow and develop their own experience.”
Ziemniak’s responsibilities include working on the Parent Programs e-newsletter and all communication pieces, helping coordinate the annual Trojan Parents Weekend in October and overseeing content for the department’s Web site, which is updated at least weekly. Currently she is working on a three-minute parent montage video clip as well as other clips for the site.
“Anne continuously analyzes taking small steps, which result in giant leaps,” says Beth Saul, director for Office of Parent Programs and Fraternity and Sorority Leadership Development. “She is always suggesting new ideas that improve publications, events and systems. She is a great team player and catalyst.”
Recently Ziemniak helped develop an email listserv for parents; approximately 15,000 parents have already signed up. She is quick to point out that the four-member staff collaborates to achieve most projects in the office.
Ziemniak says she really enjoys “watching the parents watch their students develop. As much as the students grow, so do the parents.”
She also enjoys working with people across the campus and loves being a part of the Division of Student Affairs. She plays on the Student Affairs softball team and is involved with the division’s Professional Development recognition committee.
What she likes best about USC is the sense of community and being part of something bigger. “I really like the mission of the university and the way it prepares its undergraduates,” she says.
Ziemniak earned her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, her master’s degree in postsecondary administration and student affairs from USC and is currently working on her Ed.D. with an emphasis in higher education administration through the Rossier School of Education. Before joining the Office of Parent Programs, she worked as an admissions counselor at Loyola Marymount University and was an associate director in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions for the Marshall School of Business.