August 24, 2005
Clark University’s Associate Dean Priscilla Elsass Receives ACE Fellowship
 WORCESTER, MA -- Priscilla Elsass, associate dean of Clark’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM), was recently selected for the 2005-06 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows Program. Elsass is one of 40 college and university senior faculty and administrators in the country to receive the ACE fellowships. Visit www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Fellows_Program1&TEMPLATE=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=9962 for a complete list of Fellows.
The ACE Fellowship Program is the nation’s premier higher-education leadership development program, preparing senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities. The program combines seminars, interactive learning opportunities, campus events and placement at another higher education institution to condense years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a single semester or year. During the placement, Fellows spend time working with a college or university president and other senior officers at a host institution to observe how they address strategic planning, resource allocation, development, policy and other issues and challenges.
"The individuals selected have demonstrated strong leadership ability,” said Marlene Ross, director of the Fellows Program. “The Fellows Program will sharpen and enhance their leadership skills, broaden their perspectives, and prepare them to effectively address issues of concern to the higher education community."
Elsass is spending the 2005-06 academic year working with Ahmed Abdelal, provost of Northeastern University in Boston.
She joined Clark’s Graduate School of Management in 1991 and has particular research interests in demographic diversity in work teams, team dynamics, job stress and control in the workplace. Visit her faculty page at www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=88.
Elsass received her bachelor’s degree and her MPS from Cornell University and her MBA and PhD from The University of Connecticut.
She is formerly from New Hartford, New York. She currently resides in Woodstock, Conn.
Founded in 1918, ACE is the major coordinating body for all the nation's higher education institutions, representing more than 1,600 college and university presidents, and more than 200 related associations, nationwide. It seeks to provide leadership and a unifying voice on key higher education issues and influence public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives.
For more information about the Fellowship Program visit www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Press_Releases2&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=10971
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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