Elizabethtown College names McClellan as Dean of Faculty

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (09/12/2010)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College named E. Fletcher McClellan to the position of Dean of Faculty. He replaces Christina A. Bucher who recently returned to her position as professor of religious studies with the College.

As Dean of Faculty, McClellan oversees Elizabethtown College's academic departments and is instrumental in the recruitment, appointment and advancement of faculty members. He also is closely involved in curriculum development, outcomes assessment, and programs that promote scholarship and teaching effectiveness among Elizabethtown's faculty.

McClellan, of Palmyra, earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, a master's degree in political science from East Tennessee State University, and a bachelor's degree in government from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. He is a graduate of Chambersburg (Pa.) Area Senior High School. McClellan brings with him three decades of academic experience.

Joining the Elizabethtown faculty in 1982, McClellan was promoted to associate professor of political science in 1989 and professor of political science in 1996. He twice served as department chair since 2001, and he served as interim provost during the 2006-2007 academic year. He was president of the faculty assembly from 2004 to 2006 and served as associate dean of faculty from 1995 to 2001. In the late 1990s, McClellan served as co-chair of the Elizabethtown College Institutional Self-Study Committee for re-accreditation by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, and he served as interim provost and dean of faculty.

In the spring of 2008, he was a lecturer in American Studies with the Dalian University of Foreign Languages, School of English Studies, in Dalian, China, and in fall 1999, was a lecturer in political studies at Queen's University, International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, England.

McClellan's major areas of academic interest include American government, presidential studies, U.S. policy toward Native Americans, and American politics and popular culture. He is also the director of the College's Capital Semester Internship Program.

McClellan has served as an external reviewer for several political science departments in the Northeast, and has conducted numerous workshops on outcomes assessment at national and regional political science meetings. He is on the executive council of the Political Science Education section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and was section program chair for the 2010 annual APSA meeting.

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Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students. For more information about Elizabethtown College, please visit our website at www.etown.edu.

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