Jeffery Elwell is a former President of Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU).

Early life and college

Elwell spent much of his childhood in Southern California, graduating from James Monroe High School in 1975. He graduated from California State University, Bakersfield in 1979, with a B.A. in English. He attended graduate school at Louisiana State University from 1979-80 before attending and graduating from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1982 with an M.S. in Communication and Theatre. He earned a Ph.D. in Speech Communication and Theater from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1986.

Academic career

After spending time as a faculty member at three small private liberal arts institutions ( Virginia Intermont College, Gardner-Webb University, and Aurora University) between 1984 and 1989, he was appointed as associate professor and director of Theatre at

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(MSU) in 1989. He served at MSU until 1996, earning both tenure and promotion to full professor. In 1996, he moved to Marshall University as professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. In 1999, he was appointed as chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Executive Artistic Director of the Nebraska Repertory Theatre at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served in that role until November 2004 when he became the Founding Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at

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. He served in that role until 2010 when he was appointed Provost at Auburn University Montgomery. In 2012, Elwell was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the

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and served in that role until July 2017, when he was appointed President at ENMU.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elwell, Jeffery Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Southern Illinois University alumni California State University, Bakersfield alumni Virginia Intermont College faculty Aurora University faculty Marshall University faculty Mississippi State University faculty East Carolina University faculty University of Tennessee faculty Eastern New Mexico University faculty People from North Hills, Los Angeles Louisiana State University alumni University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni Gardner–Webb University University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty Auburn University at Montgomery faculty University of Tennessee at Chattanooga faculty Academics from Los Angeles