Jeff Elzinga
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Position: Professor of Writing
Chair, General Studies Division
Education: B.A. St. Olaf College
M.F.A. Columbia University
First year at Lakeland: 1980
Courses taught in 2007-08:
WRT 215 Fiction Writing
WRT 100 Introduction to Mass Media
GEN 445 Global Conflict and Cooperation
GEN 100 College Writing Workshop
Family: Wife, Valerie; son, Eliot; daughter, Celine;
son, Paul
Professional Achievements:
- Formerly a career Foreign Service Officer in Africa, U.S. Department of State
- Advisory Board Member, Academic Support Network, Raising Malawi
Community Involvement:
- Soccer coach
- President, Howards Grove School Board