Lisa Weatherby brings more than 20 years of post-secondary education experience to her role as Dean, Academic Services. No stranger to SAIT, she’s spent time in leadership roles with the School of Transportation, the School of Construction and more recently, Dean of the MacPhail School of Energy.
In her current role, Lisa is responsible for effective program delivery, which includes Academic Upgrading, Open Studies and English Language Foundations, as well as core institutional programming in humanities and sciences.
As a SAIT alumna from the Avionics Technology program, she holds a private pilot license and has a Master of Education from the University of Calgary. She has completed a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Liverpool, with a research focus on inclusive classrooms in male-dominated apprenticeship programs.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.