Henry Bryce Jordan (September 22, 1924 – April 12, 2016) was an American university administrator and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

. He was the fourteenth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1983 until 1990. Prior to that, he served as interim president of the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

from 1970 to 1971 and as first president of the

University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It w ...

from 1971 to 1982. During Jordan's tenure at Penn State, the university became the 11th member of the

Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...

in 1990. Penn State's

Bryce Jordan Center The Bryce Jordan Center is a 15,261-seat multi-purpose arena in University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. The arena opened in 1996 and is the largest such venue between ...

is named after him. He died on April 12, 2016.

References

External links

Bryce Jordan, The Jordan Medallion

The Jordan Years: A Personal Retrospective

libraries.psu.edu 1924 births 2016 deaths Presidents of the University of Texas at Austin Presidents of Pennsylvania State University Presidents of the University of Texas at Dallas People from Clovis, New Mexico {{US-academic-administrator-stub