Theresa ("T.") McElwaine is currently a UUP representative on the College Panel on Professional Evaluations, UUP department "rep at large," member of the UUP membership development committee, and ongoing UUP Sunshine Fund donor. She has also completed several statewide UUP leadership training sessions covering the Taylor Law, grievances, and alternative solutions to problems that UUP members may encounter.
"Serving as a delegate is deeply rewarding because it offers a tangible opportunity to help colleagues at Purchase and to ‘give back’ to the union that has helped so many members throughout SUNY. UUP is here for us and can be enormously helpful, particularly for new employees, those approaching continuing appointment, and those who have workplace concerns. Working together for the good of our members, the campus, and SUNY, is what UUP is all about."
Theresa is enjoying her 20th year at Purchase (May 2007 will mark the beginning of her 21st year). She began her Purchase career in May 1987 as an assistant dean in Continuing Education. During that period, she served on the executive board of the Council of Professional Employees for several years, as vice president, president, and immediate past president. In Nov. 1997, she was promoted to director of communications for academic affairs, reporting to the Vice President of Academic Affairs.
Theresa holds a B.A. in art (Calif. State Univ. at Fullerton) and an M.F.A. in photography (San Francisco Art Institute). Her work has been exhibited and published internationally. In addition to her active career as an artist, she worked as a nonprofit arts administrator at San Francisco Camerawork and, after relocating to the New York metro area in Dec. 1983, at the Collective for Living Cinema and American International Artists Management. She also worked as a consultant for groups as diverse as Clarity Educational Productions ("Rosie the Riveter"), the Parabola Arts Foundation (NYC), and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Updated, February, 2007
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