Elaine Maimon

Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage 2004-2007

-B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Elaine P. Maimon is the Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), a multi-campus university serving more than 20,000 students.  Through the leadership of Dr. Maimon, UAA is building momentum.  In September 2006, the university broke ground for the $87 million Integrated Science Building, the first new classroom building at UAA in 14 years.  In October 2006, UAA opened an architecturally innovative building designed to house the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program  (ANSEP).   This award-winning program in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines graduates 70 percent of the Alaska Native students who begin as freshmen. 

During her tenure at UAA, Dr. Maimon and her team have streamlined university processes and practices through an “Idea Bank” campaign, a bureaucracy-busting plan that promotes a student-centered environment.  In addition, she has articulated the idea of the university as a Public Square, a plan integrating the university and the community.  Great cities need great universities, and UAA is proud to be Anchorage’s Public Square.

Fully involved in the Anchorage community herself, Dr. Maimon serves on the Executive Boards of Commonwealth North, the Center for the Performing Arts, the CIRI Foundation and the Anchorage Economic Development Council. Nationally, Dr. Maimon serves on the Women’s Commission of the American Council on Education.

Dr. Maimon received all her degrees – B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. – from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year and later received her Ph.D. with distinction.  She then served in a number of increasingly responsible teaching and administrative roles at Haverford College, Arcadia University, Brown University, Queens College (CUNY) and Arizona State University West, where she served as the chief campus executive officer.

A founder of Writing Across the Curriculum, Dr. Maimon is the author of numerous publications, including several co-authored composition textbooks used by colleges and universities nationwide.  To honor Dr. Maimon’s work, Arcadia University annually presents the Elaine P. Maimon Award in writing.

The New McGraw-Hill Handbook   
The New McGraw-Hill Handbook    

Today’s students don’t just write papers; they create multimedia presentations. They don’t just do research; they sift through a mountain of online information. They don’t just read print texts; they analyze visual information of all kinds. With the new standards being set for today’s students, shouldn’t today’s students have the new standard in college handbooks?

A Writer's Resource

A Writer's Resource    

A New Standard for Writing: A Writer’s Resource integrates coverage of visual rhetoric and writing for college throughout Tabs 2 and 3, Writing and Designing Papers and Common Assignments, with models for the kinds of writing students will be doing in college, as well as guidance on how to understand and use visual information in rhetorical contexts.

Writing Intensive   
Writing Intensive     Available free with every student and instructor copy of Writing Intensive, this fully
integrated online resource includes a new state-of-the-art course management and
peer review system that allows users to do the following:
• Create arid comment on multiple drafts among groups of users
• Embed comments and links next to reviewed papers
• Drag and drop editing symbols that link to grammar coverage within Catalyst