Posted on May 16, 2001 at 8:55 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Ellen G. Zahariadis, M.A., of Helena, has been named director of the Birmingham Area Consortium for Higher Education (BACHE). The appointment is effective June 1.

Zahariadis, the associate director of BACHE since 2000, will succeed BACHE’s founding director, Margaret Armbrester, M.A., who will return to full-time teaching and other duties at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Armbrester has been director of BACHE since 1996.

Zahariadis earned both a bachelor’s degree in classical culture in 1987 and a master’s degree in classical Greek in 1990 from the University of Georgia. She was an academic advising coordinator at Georgia from 1990 to 1993. She then directed the Office of Disability and Support Services at Vassar College, where she also was the coordinator of the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education Grant from 1994 to 1997. In 1997 she became director of program development and promotion at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Zahariadis has been employed at UAB since 2000. She worked as a degree-audit specialist for UAB Academic Programs and Policy before becoming BACHE’s associate director.

BACHE is a collaboration among five four-year colleges and universities that provides students at UAB, Birmingham-Southern College, Miles College, Samford University and the University of Montevallo with increased, enriched and diversified academic opportunities by pooling and sharing resources.