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Harting announces retirement
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Harting announces retirement
from UMES
12.11.2007
By BRUCE HOTCHKISS
Senior Editor
PRINCESS ANNE, Md. — Katherine “Kat” Harting, for nearly 20 years the media specialist for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, has announced her retirement effective Jan. 1.
Harting says that she will retreat to her home in Princess Anne to devote her time and attention to the completion of her doctoral dissertation.
A member of the first class, in 2002, of the UMES doctoral program in organizational leadership, she is exploring, in that thesis, the role of distance education initiatives within historically black land grant university systems and communities.
Harting has worked more than 30 years in communication, education and information technology. As media specialist for UMES’s Department of Agriculture, Maryland Cooperative Extension and the Rural Development Center since 1988, she has “worn many hats.”
Her work has included media and public relations, writing, editing, technical services for teleconferences and Web conferences, Web site design, photography, exhibit design and fabrication and other projects.
She has served as principal contact officer at UMES for the American Distance Education Consortium for more than a decade. She has taught at Endicott College, Salisbury University, and George Washington University.
Harting majored in journalism and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan.
She was a television news producer and bureau chief. She was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University on leave from her Emmy Award-winning work with ABC News. She also worked as a news producer, writer and editor for several years at WGBH-TV in Boston and later served as a segment producer for ABC’s “20/20” weekly news magazine format program.
Invitations have gone out for a “retirement celebration” — modest at Harting’s request— at the Brew River restaurant in Salisbury on Dec. 20 from 4 to 6:30 p.m.