City University Appoints Five New Board Members; Board of Governors Grows To Fifteen.

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- City University's Board of Governors has appointed Larry W. Campbell, Cynthia Chirot, Dr. Peter C. Ku, Steven Weidner, and Randy Aliment to the board, bringing the number of members to fifteen. The new appointees bring extensive private and public sector experience to the university and all are committed to education and public service.

Larry W. Campbell is a well-respected political figure in Canada. Campbell currently serves in the Canadian Senate. Previously he served as mayor of Vancouver from 2002-2005. Prior to holding the office of mayor, Campbell worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1969-1973 and was a member of the Drug Squad from 1973-1981. Campbell later worked in Vancouver's first district Coroner's office from 1981-1996 when he was appointed to B.C. Chief Coroner. Campbell holds a B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. from City University.

Cynthia Chirot is Chief Executive Officer of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (N.W.E.N.). Chirot joined N.W.E.N. in 2006 after working in the banking industry for 28 years as executive vice president at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, and vice president of Product Development at Seafirst/Bank of America. Chirot has served on numerous community boards and holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a M.B.A. from the University of Washington.

Dr. Peter C. Ku is the Chancellor Emeritus of the Seattle Community College District. Ku was the chancellor from 1998-2003 and served as the president of North and South Seattle Community Colleges from 1990-1998. Born in China, Ku was one of the country's highest-ranking Chinese-American educators and the first Asian born community college president in the State of Washington. Ku holds a B.A. in Law from Taiwan Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan, a M.A. in Library Science from the University of Minnesota, an M.A. in Education Administration from East Carolina University and a Ph.D. in Education Administration from Duke University.

Steven Weidner is president of Program Navigators, Inc, a Bellevue, Washington based management firm. A nationally sought after speaker on project management, Weidner was the lead author and project manager for the book Accelerate Your Career As a Project Manager. Weidner was vice president with CH2M HILL, and spent nine years as a project manager at The Boeing Company, has been an advisor to Project World, and is a Certified Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. He served as a member of the teaching faculty for the M.S. in Project Management at City University where he earned a M.B.A. with Presidential Honors.

Randy Aliment is a senior partner in the Seattle office of Williams, Kastner and Gibbs PLLC, joining the firm in 1980 and serving as its Chairman from 1994-96. His practice emphasizes commercial litigation, higher education law and client counseling. He has represented clients in numerous state and federal courts and administrative bodies in several states and Canada. Aliment served as legal counsel for City University from 2000 to 2006. He has been recognized by the Washington CEO magazine as one of Washington's Most Amazing Attorneys in its March 2006 issue and by the Washington Law and Politics magazine as a Super Lawyer every year since 2001 in its annual survey of Washington's best lawyers. Aliment is an active member of several local and national associations including the Washington State Bar Association, American Bar Association (member of the Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section/Task Force on Leadership-Diversity Initiative), and Federal Bar Association Defense Research Institute. He received his J.D. from the University of Puget Sound graduating second in his class and summa cum laude.

"On behalf of the entire Board of Governors, I am very pleased to welcome Larry, Cynthia, Peter, Steven and Randy to the board," comments Dr. Viola L. Tasler, Past Board Chair/Nominating Committee Chair, City University Board of Governors. "They all bring unique areas of expertise to the table and I look forward to a long, productive working relationship with them."

About City University

Founded in 1973 in Seattle, Washington, City University is a private, not-for-profit university with over 41,000 alumni worldwide. City University's goal is to change lives for good by offering high quality and relevant online and in-class education options to any person in the world with a desire to achieve. The university is comprised of three schools: The School of Management, The Gordon Albright School of Education, and The School of Arts and Sciences. Headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, City University offers at locations throughout Washington, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Slovakia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, and China.

About City University's Board of Governors

City University's Board of Governors, by Charter and By-laws, has legal and fiduciary responsibilities for the quality and integrity of the institution. It selects a Chief Executive Officer (President), approves and monitors the implementation of the mission of the institution, oversees the establishment of broad institutional policies, and exercises oversight to ensure compliance with policies.