Neb. Elbert C. Dickey has been named dean and director of University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, NU Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Vice Chancellor John Owens announced. Dickey will be dean designate pending approval by the NU Board of Regents. The regents are expected to consider the appointment at their June 23 meeting. Moving a large and complex organization in new directions, while simultaneously improving its existing strengths, is a formidable assignment. Dr. Dickey is fortunate to have tremendous support from both faculty and stakeholders across Nebraska as he embarks on his exciting new assignment.
Dickey is a professor of biological systems engineering.
He joined the IANR faculty in 1978 with extension and research appointments in soil and water conservation. He was named assistant dean of extension in 1991 and became associate extension dean in 1998. Before joining NU, he was at the University of Illinois, where he earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in agricultural engineering. Dickey is a nationally recognized leader in conservation tillage. He earned the Great Plains Agricultural Council's Distinguished Service Award for conservation tillage.