University of Puget Sound
Susan Resneck Pierce retired as president of the University of Puget Sound in 1993.
From 1990-92 she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College at Lewis & Clark College, and from 1984-90 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa. At all three institutions, she served as Professor of English.
Dr. Pierce has also served as Assistant Director of the Division of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. where she directed the three federal programs that gave support to colleges and universities for undergraduate education in the humanities. She also served as Chair of the English Department at Ithaca College, and as Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University. She also served as a member of the Council of Presidents of the Association of Governing Boards.
Susan Pierce is the author of The Moral of the Story (Columbia University's Teachers College Press, 1982) and is co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Ellison's "Invisible Man" (Modern Language Association, 1989). She has published essays on such American writers as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Heller, and Sexton in professional journals and as chapters in books, and has written and spoken extensively about educational issues. (Until 1992 her publications were under the name of Susan Resneck Parr.) Dr. Pierce has served on the boards of the Association of American Colleges, the American Conference of Academic Deans, and on the advisory committee for the Association of American Colleges project on engineering and the liberal arts. She has also been active in many civic, cultural and professional organizations, currently serving on the National Committee of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Kansas City, the National Institutes of Health Task Force on Prevention of Abuse of Alcohol, and on the Washington Women in Leadership Advisory Committee. Susan Pierce received her A.B. degree from Wellesley College in 1965, her M.A. degree in English from the University of Chicago in 1966, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1972. She is married to Kenneth Pierce. Her daughter, Alexandra, a graduate of Bowdoin College and Duke University Law School of Law, is a practicing attorney.
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