Human Resources

It’s our mission to educate, advise, represent, and support Lewis & Clark’s most valuable asset —you! We do so by building partnerships and providing expertise while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and ethics. 

How can I visit the HR office?
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Pam Wassmer 
pwassmer@lclark.edu 
HR Administrative Assistant
503-768-6236

Pam Wassmer coordinates general administrative functions for the Human Resources office. This includes: representing the department and often Lewis & Clark as the “first contact” person, providing direct administration and secretarial support to the Assistant Vice President for Human Resources, Associate Director of Human Resources, and Training and Development Manager, supervising student workers and temporary employees, maintaining the departmental webpage, processing personnel actions in Colleague database, and functioning as the departmental Colleague “super user”.

Heather DeLancett                                                                            hdelancett@lclark.edu                                                                                   Student Employment Coordinator
503-768-6266

Heather DeLancett is responsible for overseeing all aspects of student employment at Lewis & Clark. This includes part-time, temporary, summer and on- and off-campus jobs. She works to create opportunities for student employment and manages the process whereby students are placed in the payroll system once hired. Other responsibilities include verifying student eligibility to work in on-campus and off-campus Federal Work Study (FWS) and Lewis & Clark Work Study (LCWS) positions, implementing and maintaining campus-wide student employment policies and procedures; coordinating all student job postings, and developing relationships with and providing training for student employee supervisors.

Aaron Mulkey
amulkey@lclark.edu
HR Analyst - Recruiter
503-768-6238

Aaron Mulkey is responsible for all aspects of the staff employment process, including job postings, recruitment, supervisor training related to hiring, job offers, new employee processing, annual pay increases, and processing terminations. He is also responsible for the annual Affirmative Action Plan reporting. He also coordinates many aspects of payroll process including pay changes, new hires and terminations.

Barb Lipinski, PHR, GPHR
blipinski@lclark.edu
Benefits and Compensation Analyst
503-768-6234

Barbara Lipinski’s responsibilities include advising employees and retirees on benefits-related issues, such as medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts and retirement benefits. In addition, she is responsible for employee compensation and is involved with the 403(b) Committee. She also delivers new hire benefits orientation and acts as a liaison with the company’s benefits vendors.

Holly Allen-Petersen
hallenpetersen@lclark.edu
HRIS Analyst
503-768-6232

Holly Allen-Petersen’s responsibilities include the timely and accurate generation of and maintenance of data in the Lewis & Clark Human Capital Management, Payroll, Time/Attendance and Benefit systems via Workday. She monitors, troubleshoots and resolves transactions and ensure they successfully proceed through the workflows and approvals. In addition, she performs duties such as reporting, auditing, testing, and documentation related to Workday.

Sharla Sevy
sevy@lclark.edu
Payroll Manager
503-768-7819

Sharla Sevy oversees the processing of the College’s payroll for 1700+ Staff, Faculty, and Students. She also performs and supervises all activities necessary for timely and accurate processing of monthly payrolls and regulatory reporting.  In addition, she also ensures compliance with established payroll policies and procedures as well as federal and state regulations.

Kris Codron, SPHR
kcodron@lclark.edu
Associate Director
503-768-6237

Kris Codron is the Associate Director of Human Resources. Her responsibilities include assisting with supervisor training, ensuring compliance of both the LCCSSA and Teamster collective bargaining agreements, providing coaching and counseling to both employees and supervisors in work related matters, and advising employees on matters related to FMLA/OFLA. In addition, Kris is responsible for supervising and providing back up in the areas of Student Employment, Benefits and Recruiting.

Isaac Dixon, SPHR
idixon@lclark.edu
Associate Vice President & Director of Human Resources
503-768-6239

Isaac Dixon is the Associate Vice President and Director of Human Resources.  His responsibilities include providing strategic HR direction and management for Lewis and Clark College as well as interacting with managers, faculty and staff.  He also provides services to college constituents in the areas of employee and labor relations, recruitment/selection, compensation management and Affirmative Action.