{"id":28678,"date":"2017-11-08T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2017\/11\/08\/necc-dean-development-admitted-academy-women\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:14:52","slug":"necc-dean-development-admitted-academy-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/11\/08\/necc-dean-development-admitted-academy-women\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Dean of Development Admitted to Academy of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16718\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/11\/Wendy-Shaffer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16718\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16718\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/11\/Wendy-Shaffer-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendy Shaffer, Northern Essex Community College Dean of Development.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wendy Shaffer, Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Dean of Development, was one of 21 women honored during the Northeastern Massachusetts YWCA\u2019s 28th Celebration of Tribute to Women on Thursday, October 26, at DiBurro\u2019s Function Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Shaffer, a 36-year employee of Northern Essex, is a Newburyport resident. Raised in a family that believed in the value of education, she attended UMass Amherst graduating with a bachelor of arts and a master\u2019s in education. With a career in higher education, Shaffer says she is grateful for the opportunity to pay it forward.<\/p>\n<p>As dean of NECC\u2019s development, she is responsible for writing public and private sector grants. She is inspired every day by the college\u2019s faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work alongside scientists, artists, mathematicians, authors, nurses, historians, and engineers and I see how their efforts impact others,\u201d Wendy said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaffer refers to her work as \u201cchallenging, exciting, and rewarding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am truly honored to be part of an extraordinary team,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>NECC President Lane Glenn credits her team with burning the midnight oil to develop grant proposals. \u201cPeople don\u2019t generally write grant proposals at work during the day when the lights are on and the phones are ringing,\u201d he said \u201cSuccessful grant proposals are most often written in the off hours. They are laborious to write and can be arduous to implement. But they enable people and institutions to do great things. In Wendy\u2019s case, they are written because of an immense belief in the mission of the college and because of the contribution they make to student success. This is really at the core of what Wendy is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YWCA Executive director Susan Staples and YWCA Board President Katherine Castro Eardly wrote in the program\u2019s forward that \u201cWe are always astounded by what our honorees have contributed to their families, workplaces, and communities. It is apparent that these women are dedicated, sincere, tenacious, inspirational and empowered. At some point in each of their lives, a family member, mentor, or friend supported them in their endeavors to move forward to where they are today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Shaffer, Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Dean of Development, was one of 21 women honored during the Northeastern Massachusetts YWCA\u2019s 28th Celebration of Tribute to Women on Thursday, October 26, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":28680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NECC Dean of Development Admitted to Academy of Women - 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