Walking, Cycling, Leading: Meet CAPLA Dean Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

Sept. 30, 2020
Who
Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, Dean and Professor of Landscape Architecture
What
Interview
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Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

In September 2020 College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture Dean Nancy Pollock-Ellwand, who joined CAPLA in 2017, was interviewed for the UArizona news site Lo Que Pasa. Read the interview on the CAPLA website.

The interview begins:

Why did you choose to join the University of Arizona?

This is a great opportunity to lead a remarkable college of faculty, staff and students dedicated to innovation in the built environment, situated within a powerful multidisciplinary setting in a part of the world that is highly distinctive climatically, environmentally, culturally and socially. I also feel well-supported here in trying new ideas, allowing me to exert my own creativity in the role of an academic administrator.
 

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