Julie Bugner-Smith has been hired as the Alumni and Events Coordinator for Barton Community College’s Institutional Advancement department. The new position will have her leading alumni engagement and signature fundraising events for the Barton Community College Foundation.

Barton President Dr. Marcus Garstecki said the Foundation Board recognizes the importance of the position, which was posted on the Central Kansas Jobs website in September, and has approved paying the salary for this position to support alumni events.

Bugner-Smith served as executive director for United Way of Central Kansas from 2010 to 2017, when she left to lead the Pawnee Valley Community Hospital Foundation. In 2022 she became the program coordinator for the Larned Area Chamber of Commerce & Economic Development.

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