{"id":165284,"date":"2025-07-17T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=165284"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:17:40","slug":"elise-morgan-named-eng-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2025\/07\/17\/elise-morgan-named-eng-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Elise Morgan Named ENG Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Longtime faculty member who served as dean ad interim for two years assumes permanent leadership<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/elise-morgan-college-of-engineering-dean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Molly Glass<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new dean of the Boston University College of Engineering is a familiar face: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/elise-morgan-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elise Morgan<\/a>, interim dean since July 2023 and a long-standing and deeply respected member of the ENG faculty, will take over the role permanently starting August 1, BU officials announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Her appointment comes after a national search process that included \u201cseveral strong candidates for the role,\u201d Gloria Waters, University provost and chief academic officer, said in a letter to the BU community. Waters described Morgan\u2019s \u201cexemplary leadership\u201d as a key factor in the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 as a leader is robust. Formerly an associate dean of ENG, she helped facilitate greater collaboration throughout the college, strengthening its research excellence in the process. She created new junior faculty mentoring programs, designed and oversaw a new faculty search process that focuses on convergent research themes, helped recruit a host of cross-disciplinary graduate students, and designed and oversaw the college\u2019s holistic grants administration and finance system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Morgan has brought a steady, collaborative management style focused on accelerating ambitious new scholarship, further strengthening the college\u2019s undergraduate offerings, and enhancing a culture of inclusion for students, faculty, and staff across all departments, in her role as interim dean for the last two years,\u201d Waters wrote in the letter. \u201cIn doing so, she has established her own vision for the college as a laboratory for innovation and a training ground for premier engineering talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Read the full story at<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/elise-morgan-college-of-engineering-dean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Today<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She has established her own vision for the college as a laboratory for innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":165293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,1041],"tags":[983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165306,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165284\/revisions\/165306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}