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Vet dean shares life experience
A&M excellence draws Eleanor Green to veterinary medicine school
By: Matt Woolbright
Issue date: 4/2/09 Section: News
Eleanor Green left her alma mater, the University of Florida, to take over as the Dean for Texas A&M's Veterinary Medicine school.
Green completed her first two years of undergraduate at the University of South Florida and finished her major in animal science at the University of Florida.
Following her graduation as a Gator, Green attended the veterinary medicine school at Auburn University. Each class at the time was 100 students and Green said the closeness was very rewarding and that she still is in contact with many of them even though they are spread out across the country.
Green's first job out of school was a private practice in rural, northeast Mississippi. Green and her husband, whom she met at Auburn, built the practice from nothing.
"It's an incredible experience to go and start from scratch and build the practice from the ground up," Green said.
Green would then get another chance to start something from the ground up. This time it was the veterinary medicine school at Mississippi State University.
Green and her husband were the third and fourth faculty members hired and contributed greatly to the way the school was built - in all aspects, including designing the facility and curriculum, setting admission procedures and accepting the first class.
The dean of the school had an attitude that shaped the way Green worked and the decisions she made when she got into positions of leadership later in her career.
"We had a dean that was very visionary, very 'can-do' in his thinking," Green said. "What he instilled at a very early stage was 'you can accomplish a lot if you just dream it.'"
Following her tenure at Mississippi State, Green began working as a faculty member in the veterinary medicine school at the University of Missouri.
While at Missouri, Green experienced another dean who had a large effect on the administrator she was to become. This dean granted the faculty a lot of freedom to better the program their way.
Green completed her first two years of undergraduate at the University of South Florida and finished her major in animal science at the University of Florida.
Following her graduation as a Gator, Green attended the veterinary medicine school at Auburn University. Each class at the time was 100 students and Green said the closeness was very rewarding and that she still is in contact with many of them even though they are spread out across the country.
Green's first job out of school was a private practice in rural, northeast Mississippi. Green and her husband, whom she met at Auburn, built the practice from nothing.
"It's an incredible experience to go and start from scratch and build the practice from the ground up," Green said.
Green would then get another chance to start something from the ground up. This time it was the veterinary medicine school at Mississippi State University.
Green and her husband were the third and fourth faculty members hired and contributed greatly to the way the school was built - in all aspects, including designing the facility and curriculum, setting admission procedures and accepting the first class.
The dean of the school had an attitude that shaped the way Green worked and the decisions she made when she got into positions of leadership later in her career.
"We had a dean that was very visionary, very 'can-do' in his thinking," Green said. "What he instilled at a very early stage was 'you can accomplish a lot if you just dream it.'"
Following her tenure at Mississippi State, Green began working as a faculty member in the veterinary medicine school at the University of Missouri.
While at Missouri, Green experienced another dean who had a large effect on the administrator she was to become. This dean granted the faculty a lot of freedom to better the program their way.
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