Stephen L. Percy is an American university administrator and academic. He has been the 10th president of

Portland State University Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the following two decades ...

, Oregon's third largest university, since 2020.

Career

Percy graduated from Hamilton College (A.B. Government) and

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(Ph.D. Political Science) before beginning his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the

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(1981-1988). He would later become a professor at

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(1988-2011) and the University of Baltimore (2011-2014), where he was also the Dean of the College of Public Affairs. Percy joined the faculty at Portland State in 2014. He had been Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at PSU (2014-2019) when he took over as interim president when the previous president,

Rahmat Shoureshi Rahmat Allah Shoureshi (Persian: رحمت‌الله شورشی) is an Iranian American former university administrator, most prominently at Portland State University (PSU) from 2017 to 2019. In January 2017, Shoureshi began serving as interim pr ...

, was pressured by PSU's Board of Trustees to resign. In May 2020, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to make Percy's position permanent, making him the 10th president of PSU. Since 1978 Percy has published 6 books, 1 textbook, 29 articles, and 5 book chapters.

References

Living people Presidents of Portland State University Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-academic-administrator-stub