Steve Elias

Steven Elias is Dean of the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado. Prior to UNC, he was the Katz Endowed Dean of the Katz School of Business at Fort Lewis College, as well as the Founder and Director of the US Economic Development Administration funded Center for Innovation. Prior to FLC, he was the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Professor in the College of Business at New Mexico State University, where he was also a 2010 Bill Daniels Fellow in Ethics. While at NMSU, he held several administrative positions, including NMSU Director of the Woodrow Wilson MBA Fellowship in Education Leadership program, Interim Associate Dean for Research, Head of the Management Department, and PhD Program Director. With over 20-years of administrative experience in Minority Serving Institutions of higher education, his primary interests and expertise revolve around higher education administration, policy, and due process.