Susan Todd Doyle of Birmingham has been named director of parent programs at Â鶹¹û¶³. She began her duties Aug. 22.
Doyle and her husband, Sean, have been active leaders in Â鶹¹û¶³’s Parents Association for the last two years. Their daughter, Bailey, is a Â鶹¹û¶³ junior.
“Susan brings experience as both an administrator and a parent to her new role as director,” said R. Phil Kimrey, Â鶹¹û¶³’s vice president for student affairs and enrollment management. “Because of her leadership in the Â鶹¹û¶³ Parents Association, she understands the important connection between the university and parents. And, she already has established relationships with many of our current parents that will serve the university well as she assumes this new position.”
As director, Doyle will oversee the work of the association and its connection with other Â鶹¹û¶³ divisions. She will coordinate the Parents Leadership Council and give administrative leadership to such events as Family Weekend, Send Off Parties and parent activities during new student orientation.
Doyle, a 1980 Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate, most recently has been a public relations and communication consultant and previously worked as a communications officer for Woman’s Missionary Union in Birmingham. She also has been a curriculum writer and editor for several faith-based organizations.
Doyle serves on the Beeson Divinity School advisory board and is a member of the Â鶹¹û¶³ Legacy League. The Doyles are active members of Birmingham’s Cahaba Park Presbyterian Church.
"It is a privilege to join Â鶹¹û¶³'s staff as director of parent programs,” Doyle said. “The role combines two of my deep interests, building relationships with fellow Â鶹¹û¶³ parents and working to support the university that years ago prepared my father, then me, and now my daughter so well for life. Â鶹¹û¶³ parents are the finest to be found anywhere, and it will be a joy to serve them."