Aimée deChambeau, PhD

Aimée deChambeau, PhD, is an educator and librarian with extensive experience in leading educational and library services and systems in higher education. Aimée is interested in lifelong learning as an important sustainability issue, focusing on individuals’ skills development in support of self-directed learning, and on organic development of communities of practice in support of shared knowledge co-creation, retention, and evolution. Her research has centered on sustainable education and student success at the intersection of technology, communities of practice, and collaboration as well as feminist pedagogy and collaboration.

Aimée holds a PhD in Sustainability Education from Prescott College and an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh. She has additional formal training in leadership and management in higher education from the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education and the Leading Change Institute, as well as in systems design from the University of Pittsburgh. Aimée currently serves as a Professor of Bibliography and Dean of University Libraries at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. Prior positions include Associate Librarian at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, Director of the Schmidt Family Information & Technology Center at The Knox School in St. James, New York, and Science Librarian at The Carnegie Public Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Aimée has served as managing editor of the Journal of Sustainability Education. Highlights of Dr. deChambeau’s scholarly work is viewable at https://works.bepress.com/aimee_dechambeau/.