Jerry Herron is an American academic, the founding
dean and dean emeritus of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at
Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...
, and the former president of the
National Collegiate Honors Council.
Education and career
Herron graduated from 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, 11,075 ...
in 1971, and attended
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI.
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for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1974 and completing his Ph.D. in 1980. He joined Wayne State as an assistant professor of English in 1980, was promoted to full professor in 1993, and retired in 2019. He became founding dean of the Reid Honors College in 2008, and stepped down to become dean emeritus in 2018.
He served as president of the National Collegiate Honors Council for 2015–2016. He was named an NCHC Fellow in 2018.
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Books
Herron has written two books: ''Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline'' (1988) and ''AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History'' (1993).[''AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History'', Wayne State University Press, 1993. Reviews:
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Abilene, Texas
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Indiana University alumni
Wayne State University faculty
American university and college faculty deans
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