Kenneth Elmore

(Coordinates university efforts to provide a safe environment, where students can find their way, within a vibrant community. Responds to student concerns; helps students solve their problems; and, helps students build communities) Like to rock the boat. Looks for improvisation in the conventional and inspiration in the ordinary. Love keeping things on the cutting edge while still coating everything with spoonfuls of sugar. Temperamentally, I'm an artist, who went to school to study psychology, education, and law. In my development as an educator and as a human being, and in the search for my hopes and dreams, I have been encouraged, supported, nurtured, and taught by people of all religions, races, and cultures. Educated in Brooklyn and the City; by folks in rural South Carolina; and, within the Pomfret, Brown, Boston University, and New England Law communities. My teachers have been Civil Rights, urban decay, Booker T and the MGs, the digital age, poor folks, Ellison, DJs and B-Boy creators, storytelling, Morrison, Root medicine, and the dozens. Love that which is playful, stylish, articulate, highly-referenced, coded, transcendent, lyrical, musical, pop, and political. Currently, as dean of students at Boston University, I work with the students and staff in that community to plunge young people into an environment full of color, music, and conversation. I try to play my part to keep Boston, Boston University, and educational environments as places for people to come together, find passion, write poetry, and find love. I'm the one your parents cautioned you about but with whom you loved to hang.