Appointment For Moentmann

May 6, 2013

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) has announced the appointment of Elise Moentmann as associate dean for students, effective July 1. Moentmann is associate professor of history and has been a faculty member since August 1998. She has served as history department chair since fall 2009. She has served as director of the Summer Salzburg Session, chair of the Committee on Committees, member of the Academic Senate and the Senate Executive Committee, member of the CAS Curriculum Committee, and faculty advisor to the Phi Alpha Theta National Honors Society in History. Moentmann will succeed Jim Stemler, interim associate dean for students, who returned to his former position from retirement for the 2012-2013 academic year.

For more information contact Michael Andrews, CAS dean, at 7760 or andrews@up.edu.

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