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For Immediate Release
Jan. 27, 2012

The ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å has promoted two longtime ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å employees.

Erika Van Flein, formerly benefits administrator for ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å Human Resources, has been named director of benefits. She replaces Mike Humphrey, who recently left the System Office to serve as executive officer for ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°åA Chancellor Tom Case. Brandi Berg, formerly assistant to Board of Regents’ Executive Officer Jeannie Phillips, has been named to Phillips’ post. Phillips recently accepted a position in the ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°åF Chancellor’s Office.

In the benefits position, Van Flein oversees employee benefits administration, including health care, retirement, disability and life insurance, for some 4,600 benefits-eligible employees across the state. The lifelong Fairbanks resident joined the university in 1990, working in University Relations at ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°åF. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin.

In the regents’ position, Berg serves as primary support staff to the Board of Regents, the 11-member governing body of the ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å System. The longtime Fairbanks resident joined ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å in 2002, serving first at the ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å Foundation and then moving to the regents’ office in 2008. Prior to joining ÂÌÅ«Ì컨°å she spent 19 years in the travel industry as a senior travel consultant in Fairbanks.

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For more information, please call Kate Ripley at 907/450-8102 or email klripley@alaska.edu.

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