Elaine Maimon

Elaine Maimon wrote Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation (Stylus 2018) to motivate reform in higher education. With COVID-19 accelerating change, readers have commented that Dr. Maimon's book and her recent article, "From Triage to Transformation" in Inside Higher Education (July 30, 2020) form a road map to necessary transformations. Many have also suggested that Leading Academic Change can be read as a guide to leadership in a variety of fields, not only in higher education.

Dr. Maimon is the first author of several widely used texts--"A Writer’s Resource," now in its 6th edition; "The McGraw-Hill Handbook";"The Brief McGraw-Hill Handbook"; and "Writing Intensive"--all published by McGraw-Hill, with the intention of helping students become independent writers and thinkers. In the 1970’s, she initiated and then directed the Beaver College writing-across-the-curriculum program, one of the first WAC programs in the nation and co-authored Writing in the Arts and Sciences, a text that helped generate a movement. With a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she later helped to create the Writing Across the University (WATU) program, she has taught and served as an academic administrator at Haverford College, Brown University, Queens College, and Arizona State University. She was Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage (2004-2007) and President of Governors State University (2007-2020), leading Governors State through the Great Recession of 2008-9; the Illinois budget impasse of 2015-16; and a global pandemic. In 2015, Dr. Maimon won the Fidelity Investment/American Council on Education (ACE) Award for Institutional Transformation.

The author many articles and book chapters, Dr. Maimon is committed to quality and access for higher education's New Majority (first-generation, students of color, adults, and military veterans.