Chaikelson appointed

 

June Chaikelson was confirmed at the May 20 meeting of the Board of Governors as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The appointment takes effect on June 15 for up to one year.

Chaikelson is chair of the Psychology Department. She received her PhD in psychology from McGill University and began teaching at Concordia in 1965. Her area of expertise is stress and coping in the elderly.

Over her many years of service to Concordia, she has acted as graduate program director, chair of the Psychology Department (1975 to 1977); Dean, Division II, in the Faculty of Arts and Science; and member of both the Senate and the Board of Governors.

She is a past president of the Concordia University Faculty Association and served as chief negotiator for the faculty collective agreement on both the faculty and administrative side at different points of her career.

She currently serves on several standing committees of the Board of Governors, including the Executive Committee.