{"id":11262,"date":"2011-08-05T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11262"},"modified":"2011-08-05T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:29:19","slug":"maclean-looks-back-fondly-on-year-as-interim-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/08\/maclean-looks-back-fondly-on-year-as-interim-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"MacLean looks back fondly on year as interim dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Joanne

Joanne MacLean<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s been a busier year than most for Joanne MacLean, who was already widely experienced as a teacher, researcher and coach.<\/p>\n

The associate professor spent from September to July as Interim Dean of Applied Health Sciences<\/a>, a time that was challenging, rewarding and never presenting the same day twice.<\/p>\n

Moving back in to her old office in the Walker Complex, MacLean has had some time to reflect on the year where she stepped in to replace John Corlett, who went on to become Vice-President Academic at the University of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a whole other layer of administration at an institution that I had my eyes opened to. I experienced the complexities of a modern university,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a neat experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacLean<\/a> has held several senior positions in her 25-year career, including director of Athletics at the University of Windsor, where she coached women’s basketball and was named Ontario coach of the year three times. As Chef de Mission of Team Canada, she led more than 200 team members to the 2003 World University Games in Korea. From 2007 to 2010, she also served as Sport Management<\/a> chair at Brock, where she has worked since 2001.<\/p>\n

A highlight of her year, she said, has been watching the Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex<\/a> come to fruition. The complex, which includes labs for Applied Health Sciences and Mathematics and Science researchers, will help put Brock on the map.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a group of faculty members and graduate students who are hugely excited about moving into the complex,\u201d she said. \u201cThat building is pivotal in creating opportunities for a number of our scholars.\u201d<\/p>\n

MacLean returns to teaching this fall, and \u201cI definitely missed the day-to-day contact with students,\u201d she said. She will also focus more on her research. She is studying the stated values of sporting organizations \u2013 such as those found in mission statements \u2013 and whether those values are present in the organization\u2019s actual day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n

She returns with a new appreciation of a Faculty that is \u201ccomplex and multidimensional,\u201d she said. The work done in Applied Health Sciences ranges from teaching physical education in developing countries to how blood is carried to muscle tissue. It touches on history, sociology, psychology and the science of the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work we\u2019re doing here is really important to today\u2019s society,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have a very committed and effective group of scholars. A lot of them are young and early in their careers, and they\u2019ve got a lot of good stories to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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