Being dean a 'creative time' for Stephen Elliott
July 13, 2015
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Stephen Elliott is a visual artist, but he learned his business sense from his father, who taught business and finance and was an industrial engineer for Chrysler earlier in his career. At Chrysler, it was his father's job to find the most efficient ways to do things on the factory floor.
카지노 게임 컬렉션He would routinely do time studies, measuring how fast specific tasks were being completed. He카지노 게임 컬렉션d bring that home with him and create games for me and my siblings, such as fastening bolts to a matrix,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Elliott. 카지노 게임 컬렉션He would time us completing the tasks, and take his findings back to work. These activities left me with a great interest in making things, being creative in my approach and doing things the best and most efficient way possible.카지노 게임 컬렉션
It카지노 게임 컬렉션s this philosophy of doing things efficiently, and creatively, that served him well in his position of dean in the Faculty of Education, a post he held for the past five and a half years and left last month, making way for incoming .

Dr. Elliott likens his work as dean to a performance arts piece 카지노 게임 컬렉션 pulling disparate parts together in a meaningful way to create a meaningful thing.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Most of what I did as dean I learned in art school,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Elliott, who earned his BFA from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in 1979, studying printmaking and later working as a master printmaker for noted artists such as André Biéler. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Bringing things together, shaping them 카지노 게임 컬렉션 it카지노 게임 컬렉션s been a great job for me, being dean. I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve worked with wonderful faculty and staff.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Elliott has steered the faculty through productive, yet challenging years. The faculty faces different challenges than other faculties, he explains, because the province regulates enrolment, tuition and program, and recently mandated the change in structure to undergraduate degrees in education from one year to two. Students in the now take four successive semesters, beginning in May and ending in August of the following year.
카지노 게임 컬렉션This new program has just begun, but we think it카지노 게임 컬렉션s going to be great. Most other programs in the province have the break over the summer, but ours is intensive and puts students into the workforce a full eight months before other programs in the province. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s really intensive 카지노 게임 컬렉션 it drives the experience deeper into their souls.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In addition to the changes in the BEd program, Dr. Elliott is also proud of the new the faculty offers.
Dr. Elliott never expected to work in administration. After his BFA, he worked as a printmaker for a fine art publisher in Toronto and went on to complete a BEd at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, leading to a career as a high school art teacher. He received his MEd from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and a decade later finished a PhD in art in education from Concordia 카지노게임사이트.
After teaching in Gananoque for several years, Dr. Elliott came to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s as a professor in 1989. He became the coordinator of the , and infused the program with his passion for nurturing the arts in education and in the greater community. While teaching in ACE, he often urged students to go into education administration, because the arts are often underrepresented and not well understood in schools.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Artists are too busy to waste time in meetings,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션But students need the opportunity to think divergently, differently, and the arts do that. We nurture that.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In the end, Dr. Elliott, while urging students to pursue administrative roles, was encouraged to do the same himself. A student asked him, at one point, what he was doing in terms of administration. While he always served on committees and boards, he hadn카지노 게임 컬렉션t actively pursued an administrative position. As he opened himself to the idea, the position of associate dean of undergraduate studies at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s became available. He put his name in, spent one and a half years in that role before taking on the deanship.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve really enjoyed the experience of being dean. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s been a creative time for me,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Elliott, who continued to teach in the ACE program while leading the faculty. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We have the best programs in the province, and moving forward I think the faculty is in a strong position, with excellent people to lead it.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Next for Dr. Elliott is a return to painting. He카지노 게임 컬렉션ll clean out his home studio and see what comes up. The last painting he did before becoming dean used to hang in his office in Duncan McArthur Hall. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s a still life 카지노 게임 컬렉션 a whimsical image of a dog and a table, with a wispy plant sitting in a glass.
While he카지노 게임 컬렉션s still a systems-oriented, forward-thinking taskmaster (thanks to his father), he카지노 게임 컬렉션s looking forward to having the headspace to paint, and to taking a more relaxed approach to his art and life. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I hope I become more playful as I get older,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says, smiling.