Christine Clements

1st Term: Concludes October 2011

Christine Clements is the Dean of the College of Business & Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, a position she has held since July 2001, with a slight break to serve as the Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.  Prior to that, she served as chair of the Management Department for six years and spent one year as a Fellow in the Provost’s office. She has been a member of the faculty at UW-W since 1990. Before coming to UW-Whitewater, she was on the faculty at North Dakota State University for four years.

Chris currently serves on the Initial Accreditation Committee for AACSB International (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).  She previously served on the AACSB Pre-accreditation Committee and the Nominating Committee, and as chair of the Women Administrators in Management Education (WAME) AACSB International Affinity Group and a member of the WAME Steering Committee.

Chris has a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Arkansas, an MBA from UW-La Crosse and a B. A. from UW-Madison in Political Science and Scandinavian Studies. Before becoming dean, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Organization Theory & Effectiveness. She has presented and published research primarily in the areas of Leadership, Gender Issues in the Workplace, and Organization Theory and Design, and has been involved in the development of corporate training programs in team building and conflict management.