{"id":10996,"date":"2021-06-02T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/boardofgovernors\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:02:49","slug":"governor-spotlight-elinor-sloan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/2021\/governor-spotlight-elinor-sloan\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Spotlight: Elinor Sloan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Governor Spotlight: Elinor Sloan\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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Elinor Sloan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the Carleton University directory, Prof. Elinor Sloan is listed as Chair of the Political Science Department.  While the title is accurate, it is far from an exhaustive list.  Elinor wears many hats around campus, and she is recognized as a Carleton University alumna, professor, Chair, Senator and Board of Governor.  In her nearly 20-year tenure at the university, Elinor has planted deep roots within the campus community and proven herself to be an essential part of Carleton\u2019s governance.  Through her current role on the Board of Governors, Elinor is one of two faculty members representing Senate and is Vice-Chair of the Board\u2019s Advancement and University Relations Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elinor\u2019s longstanding tenure at Carleton makes it difficult to believe she never planned a career in academia.  Elinor obtained her undergraduate degree from the Royal Military College of Canada and spent four years as an army logistics officer (regular force) in the Canadian Armed Forces.  With a keen interest in foreign policy, security and defense, Elinor attended Carleton\u2019s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, and Tufts\u2019 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston to obtain her Master\u2019s degree and PhD, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to Canada, Elinor joined the federal government as a defense analyst in the Department of National Defense.  However, her interest in academia remained.  \u201cI had never planned an academic career, and when I did my Master\u2019s degree, I had no intention of doing a PhD,\u201d explained Elinor. \u201cAfter I completed my PhD, I went into government \u2013 which was always my plan.  One day I saw a job opening [at Carleton], so I threw in my CV and then forgot about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elinor applied to Carleton\u2019s Department of Political Science in the summer of 2001, shortly before 9\/11.  In the aftermath of the tragedy, Carleton was undertaking a search for security and defense professors \u2013 moving Elinor\u2019s expertise to the top of the list. \u201cI interviewed for the job and was fortunate enough to be chosen,\u201d stated Elinor. \u201cI did not hesitate in going from government to academia\u2026and from day one, I really enjoyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two decades since becoming a faculty member, Elinor is still taken by the beauty of Carleton\u2019s campus. Noting the university\u2019s geography, she believes Carleton feels like a community, a green island surrounded by a fairly large city.  It is this small-town feel that Elinor loves most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think my favourite thing about the university is its collegial, community environment,\u201d explained Elinor. \u201cI often tell my friends that pre-pandemic, students would show up to class in pajama pants and flip flops in January \u2013 and I just love that.  It is that friendly, community feel that always strikes me about Carleton.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With such an admiration for campus and the people in it, Elinor felt the impulse to give back to the university and show her appreciation for Carleton in a more tangible way.  After working as a faculty member for almost 14 years, she stumbled across a call for nominations to Senate and decided to throw her hat in the ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was wanting to contribute more to the university, and I saw the opportunity on Senate come up,\u201d stated Elinor. \u201cSo, I put my name in and became a Senator. But at that time, I was not planning on becoming a Board member.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, shortly after joining Carleton\u2019s Senate, Elinor was elected to the Board of Governors as a Senate representative. Later, she became Vice-Chair of the Board\u2019s Advancement and Community Relations Committee, and for the past two years has also served on the Board\u2019s Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She credits her successes to small, meaningful, daily actions \u2013 a piece of advice she would like to pass-on to students. \u201cDon\u2019t spend too much time mapping out exactly where you are going in life. Follow your interests, and work hard every day, and doors will start to open.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elinor is entering the final year in her second, three-year term on the Carleton Board of Governors and becomes Clerk of Carleton\u2019s Senate in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to view the 2020-2021 Board of Governors membership.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Carleton University directory, Prof. Elinor Sloan is listed as Chair of the Political Science Department.  While the title is accurate, it is far from an exhaustive list.  Elinor wears many hats around campus, and she is recognized as a Carleton University alumna, professor, Chair, Senator and Board of Governor.  In her nearly 20-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":8431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13758,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions\/13758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}