Erin Elman serves as MICA’s Associate Provost of Accreditation, Assessment, and Academic Program Development. Elman is a seasoned leader with extensive experience in arts-based academic program development and leadership. Over four successive deanships at the University of the Arts (UArts), Erin served as the founding dean of Graduate & Professional Studies, the interim dean of the School of Art, the founding dean of Critical & Professional Studies, and the founding dean of Continuing & Professional Studies. Overseeing a broad portfolio of programs, including graduate programs in art and music education, museum studies, graduate education, MFA and undergraduate visual art programs, as well as undergraduate programs in creative arts therapy, entrepreneurship, and liberal arts. Erin was part of the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) consortium from 2011 - 2024, serving as Director of the UArts TPS program, and as a member of the Library’s Advisory Board and has served on numerous panels and presentations at the Library. Most recently, Erin served as the CEO of Girls Inc. of Greater Philadelphia & Southern New Jersey, whose mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.

Elman received a BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and studied in Rome where she fell in love with Etruscan art and ruins. She received an MA in Art Education (awarded the Sylvia Wexler Memorial Award for Academic Research in Art Education for her thesis A Stitch in the Canon: The Feminist Art Movement of the 1970’s Influence on Contemporary Art) and an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking, both from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. Elman is a practicing and exhibiting artist (erinelman.com) and has artwork in numerous public and private collections, including the Tate London.