After having served the Washington higher education community for more than 27 years, Dr. Tana L. Hasart retired as president of Pierce College Puyallup in June of 2010. During her tenure she was instrumental in developing community and technical college policy for the Running Start Program, participated as a member of Pierce County’s Technical College transition group, and performed as an advocate and leader for the community and technical college system’s common course numbering project. Tana also served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Washington, Bothell.  She currently holds faculty status at Oregon State University, Old Dominion University, and Seattle University.

Following retirement Tana continues to work with communities and educational institutions, most notably in the areas of strategic planning, project management, curriculum development, and communications. She enjoys being a citizen activist! Recently she facilitated the work of the Puyallup School District’s Vision 2020 effort, updating and strengthening the District’s strategic plan. Tana is an evaluator for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, having chaired accreditation teams for more than 19 years. Her area of scholarship is organization development and change.