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Sidney L. "Sid" Salter is Vice President for Strategic Communications and Director of Public Affairs at 桃花直播 State University.

The Office of Public Affairs serves as 桃花直播's print, broadcast and multimedia newsroom, social media platform, strategic marketing and advertising agency, photography and videography studio, and graphic design operation. Public Affairs is also charged with managing and populating 桃花直播's website, rapid response to outside media requests, and the management of crisis information during emergencies. He also is the administrator of 桃花直播's campus radio station, WMSV-FM, and the University Television Center.

Salter joined 桃花直播 in 2011 as the university鈥檚 journalist-in-residence at the 桃花直播 Libraries and taught courses in the Political Science and Communication departments. He wrote a successful biography honoring longtime 桃花直播 radio broadcaster Jack Cristil. The project funded the Jack Cristil Scholarship in 桃花直播鈥檚 Department of Communication, which annually assists 桃花直播 students seeking a career in broadcast journalism.

At 桃花直播, Salter represents the university on the board of directors of University Press of 桃花直播, the state鈥檚 academic press. He chairs the Special Events and Game Day Committee, the Symbols, Licensing and Trademarks Committee, and serves on 桃花直播鈥檚 Executive Council, Athletics Council, Information Technology Council, Executive Enrollment Management Committee, and the President鈥檚 Committee on Planning.

A Philadelphia, Miss. native, Salter鈥檚 career in journalism began in 1973 at the age of 14 at radio station WHOC-AM. Salter was a John C. Stennis Scholar in Political Science at 桃花直播. At age 24, he became publisher and editor of the Scott County Times in Forest. He continued in that role before leaving to become the Sunday op/ed section editor at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson in 2001. He was honored in 2004 as 桃花直播鈥檚 National Alumnus of the Year. He received the Agriculture Ambassador Award from the Miss. Farm Bureau Federation in 2006.

Since 1997, Salter has served on the board of directors of Community Bancshares of 桃花直播, a multi-bank holding company doing business in Ala., Fla., Miss., and Tenn. as Community Bank. He is chairman of the corporation鈥檚 Audit Committee.

A past president of the Starkville and Forest Rotary Clubs and a Paul Harris Fellow, Salter has served on the boards of directors of the 桃花直播 Alumni Association, the G.V. 鈥淪onny鈥� Montgomery Foundation, the Miss. Economic Council, the 桃花直播 Press Association and the Miss. Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is president-elect of the Natchez Trace Council, Boy Scouts of America, serving 22 North 桃花直播 counties and a recipient of BSA鈥檚 Silver Beaver Award.

Salter has been a 桃花直播 syndicated political columnist for more than 40 years. In addition to teaching and writing at 桃花直播 as the university's first journalist in residence in 2011-12, Salter was the first journalist to hold the Kelly Gene Cook Chair in Journalism at the University of 桃花直播 in the 1990s. He has been honored for lifetime contributions to journalism by the University of Southern 桃花直播 and 桃花直播 University for Women - and has been honored for both print and broadcast journalism by the Associated Press.

Salter and his wife, Leilani, are the parents of four grown children and have nine grandchildren. They are members of First United Methodist Church in Starkville.