28 Apr Announcing ACDE’s incoming President

April 28, 2026 | The Association of Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE) is pleased to announce that Dr. Dianne Gereluk has been elected President of ACDE. Dianne’s term of office will begin on May 31, 2026.

Dianne Gereluk is Dean and Professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, serving her second term in this leadership role. She is an accomplished education leader with extensive experience in university administration, teaching, and research, and has served the University of Calgary in a range of senior roles since 2011. Most recently, she served as Chair of the Association of Alberta Deans of Education.

Her leadership and scholarship are widely recognized in the areas of educational policy with particular attention to politically contested and controversial issues in education, rural education, the polarization of education, and the deprofessionalization of the teaching profession. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Times Higher Education, National Post, The Independent, and has spoken regularly on CTV, CBC, and Alberta Primetime on politically sensitive issues in schools and education.