{"id":106,"date":"2021-12-10T14:46:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/?p=106"},"modified":"2022-02-13T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:06:58","slug":"dr-chris-schinckius-named-new-dean-of-professional-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/dr-chris-schinckius-named-new-dean-of-professional-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Chris Schinckus named new Dean of Professional Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/files\/2021\/12\/Schinckus-C-myWeb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"184\" \/>Dr. Chris Schinckus has been appointed Dean of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/professional-studies\/\">Professional Studies<\/a> at UFV, effective Jan. 1, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Schinckus most recently served as Director of the UFV School of Business. Previously, he worked as head of the School of Finance and Accounting at Taylor\u2019s University in Malaysia, director of research at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Vietnam), and program director for the PhD degree and the Master in Management, Accounting and Finance at the University of Leicester (UK). He\u2019s currently working on his third PhD, sixth Masters, and holds two bachelor degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUFV is a dynamic place and there\u2019s great willingness and opportunity to build on what we\u2019ve already accomplished,\u201d said Schinckus. \u201cI\u2019m very much looking forward to engaging with students, staff, and faculty as we continue strengthening our valuable programming, community connections, and commitments to Indigenization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Belgium, Schinckus\u2019 teaching career spans 17 years in the field of financial economics. He speaks three languages (French, English, Dutch), and his academic work has been published in more than 130 peer-reviewed articles. His book, <em>Econophysics and Financial Economics: An Emerging Dialogue<\/em>, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Schinckus brings an incredible wealth of experience to this role,\u201d said Dr. James Mandigo, UFV Provost and Vice-President, Academic.<br \/>\n\u201cHis leadership and dedication are directly connected to UFV\u2019s commitment of engaging learners, transforming lives, and building community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While considerable, Schinckus\u2019 list of degrees wasn\u2019t achieved to fortify within the walls of academia \u2014 in fact, it\u2019s quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not to collect stickers,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201cI\u2019m a life-long learner. The more you know, the more you realize how much is left to learn. Expanding my education not only extends my understanding of subjects and people, but also the complexity of the environment of post-secondary education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schinckus assumes the Dean\u2019s position previously held by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/blog\/2021\/06\/tracy-ryder-glass-selected-as-new-ufv-vice-provost-academic\/\">Dr. Tracy Ryder Glass<\/a> \u2014 now UFV\u2019s Vice-Provost Academic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Schinckus has been appointed Dean of Professional Studies at UFV, effective Jan. 1, 2022. Schinckus most recently served as Director of the UFV School of Business. Previously, he worked as head of the School of Finance and Accounting at Taylor\u2019s University in Malaysia, director of research at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Vietnam), &#8230; <a title=\"Dr. Chris Schinckus named new Dean of Professional Studies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/dr-chris-schinckius-named-new-dean-of-professional-studies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-changes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}