UConn School of Business Dean Elliott to step down, rejoin accounting faculty

Nathan C. Oldham/UConn Photo Dean John A. Elliott with students listening to a presentation at the Global Business Leadership in Sustainability Summit.

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By Hanna Snyder Gambini

John A. Elliott, dean of the UConn School of Business, will step aside next month and take a position as part of the educational faculty, the university announced this week.

An interim dean will be named later this week, and the university is embarking on a national search for Elliott’s replacement, according to Provost Anne D’Alleva.

John A. Elliott

Elliott joined the staff at UConn in 2012, after stints as business dean at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York. Before that, he taught accounting for 20 years as a faculty member at Cornell University, his Ph.D. alma mater.

He will take a job as part of the accounting faculty within the School of Business.

UConn officials said Elliott is credited with creating new academic programs, expanding hands-on learning opportunities, championing the development of entrepreneurship programs serving all students, and expanding business education at regional campuses in Stamford and Hartford.

Additionally, he spearheaded the rapid and successful pivot from in-person to online education at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, something he described as one of his biggest challenges.

Elliott mentored three associate deans who went on to lead business schools at the University of New Hampshire, Michigan State, and DePaul during the last three years.

In addition to leading the School of Business, Elliott also served as UConn’s interim provost from March 2019 until May 2020; participated in the University senate; and chaired search and reappointment committees. He is also the Auran J. Fox Chair in Business.