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Eliot S. Elfner, Ph.D., PE
Professor of Business Administration, and
Interim Associate
Dean of
Social Sciences, 2011-12

St. Norbert College
DePere, WI 54115-2099
PH: 920-403-3233
FAX: 920-403-4098
eliot.elfner@snc.edu

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Current Interests: I am using the following books in my Policy and Strategy course: Welch, Jack, and Suzy Welch, Winning, (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.), 2005; and Wooden, John & Don Yaeger, A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring, (New York: Bloomsbury USA) 2009. For two summers (2008 and 2009) my wife Bonnie and I participated in the College sponsored Norbertine Heritage Tours visiting and interacting with the conferes at many Norbertine Abbeys in Europe, located in the Czech Republic (Prague), Austria, Germany, Belgium, France and The Netherlands. I am currently (and even during the ongoing school year) engaged in some serious mind-candy recreational reading, including the Janet Evanovich and Carl Hiaasen mysteries, and some other older and some more recent mysteries. I also read Malcolm Gladwell's book OUTLIERS, (London: Little, Brown and Company), 2008. On a more serious note, I recently read and discussed Becoming Who You Are, by James Martin, S. J.(Mahwah, N.J.: HiddenSpring imprinted by Paulist Press) 2006, and Ellsberg, Robert, Modern Spiritual Masters: Writings on Contemplation and Compassion, (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books) 2008 with my Spirituality Group.

Professional Interests: Quality improvement and the improvement of student learning in higher education, Value/Supply Chain Management, retired as a Member of Faith Technologies, Inc. Board of Directors, and currently a member of Titletown Brewing Co. Board of Directors. For 80 semesters (i.e. 40 years - :-)) I have been a Professor of Business Administration at St. Norbert College. I served as the Social Science Division Chair (now designated as the Associate Dean of Social Sciences) from January 1996 until Summer 2003, and have been reappointed to that position as the Interim Associate Dean for Social Sciences for the 2011-12 academic year. I am a past Associate of Institutional Effectiveness Associates, a now disbanded consulting organization specializing in assessment of student learning processes. I spent the fall, 2003 semester on a sabbatical as a visiting scholar at the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management, working with the Executive Director, Dr. John R. Nevin. I have been back in the classroom since then and will be the Interim AD for the coming academic year. .

I have three sons, all out of college, married and independent, who have provided me with nine grandchildren (three each)! Eric has his MBA from Marquette University and is the Director of Information Systems at C. G. Schmidt, Inc. a large general contractor in Milwaukee; Jon has a Masters Degree in Teaching from Dominican University in River Forest, IL and a Masters degree in American History from DePaul University in Chicago and is an American History faculty member at Homewood-Flossmor High School; Chris is a Team Leader, Decision Support at Bellin Memorial Hospital in Green Bay, WI. My wife, Bonnie (aka Pamela) has supervised sophmore block education students in their five - week placement as student teachers for St. Norbert on a part time basis for thirty years. She and I enjoy traveling, family at the cottage, entertainment at the Meyer and Weidner Theaters in Green Bay, Music Theater at St. Norbert, and occasional city hits.

Golf, tennis, racquetball and wrestling with the grandkids keep me healthy and relaxed.

Favorite Quotes To the question of what is the "bliss" of Golf, John Updike writes "The imensities of space, beside which even polo and baseball are constricted pastimes, must be part of it. To see one's ball gallop 200 and more yards down the fairway, or see it fly clear across an entire copse of maples in full autumn flair, is to join one's soul with the vastness that, contemplated from another angle, intimidates the spirit and makes one feel small. As it moves through the adventures of a golf match, the human body, like Alice's in Wonderland, experiences an intoxicating relativity -- huge in relation to the ball, tiny in relation to the course, exactly matched to that of the other players." (Updike, John, Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf Alfred A. Knopf)

"The American Dream need not forever be denied."
Barbara Jordan - Keynote Speech at 1976 Democratic National Convention

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Dr. Eliot Elfner, P.E.	Phone:	(920) 403-3233
Professor of Business Administration and Interim Associate Dean of Social Sciences	Fax:	(920) 403-4098
St. Norbert College	E-mail:	eliot.elfner@snc.edu
100 Grant Street De Pere, WI USA 54115-2099
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