Lisa Harris has been named director of career services for Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. In her new position, she manages the college's career planning and advising program, which serves about 4,000 undergraduates. Her appointment became effective Oct. 1.

Harris, who was associate director of career services for the college before being promoted to her new position, follows Jane Levy, who is now the senior associate director for Cornell Career Services.

"We're delighted that energetic and imaginative Lisa Harris is taking on an even larger role in advising Arts and Sciences students about careers," said Lynn Abel, the college's associate dean for undergraduate admissions and education. "We have big plans for collaboration on new projects."

Harris says she is extremely pleased about her new position and plans to work on initiatives to make her office more visible and accessible to students in Arts and Sciences.

Harris earned her B.A. at Cornell in 1988, majoring in government. She went on to earn a J.D. degree at Boston College Law School in 1991. In law school, she served on the National Moot Court team and the staff of the Uniform Commercial Code Reporter Digest.

Before returning to Cornell, she held a series of positions related to her legal studies, among them legal assistant for Randy McRae and Associates and clerk in the law office of Rosalyn Pugh, both private law firms in Washington, D.C. She was also the program supervisor for legal internships with the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. She is the former chair, and an elected officer, of the Women's Information Network, a national professional organization for young women.

Harris grew up in Ithaca. Her father, Robert Harris, is an associate professor in Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center, and her mother, Anita Harris, is a policy consultant in Cornell's Office of Human Resources.