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American academic and university administrator
Alison R. Byerly (born 1961) is an American academic, who is serving as the 12th president of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota . She was previously the 17th president of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania .[1] [2] [3]
Early life and education [ edit ]
Byerly was born in Glenside, Pennsylvania , in Montgomery County in 1961. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in English at Wellesley College in 1983, a Master of Arts in English at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, and a Ph.D. in English from the university in 1989.
Byerly's area of specialty is the intersection of literature and other media, with research focus on Victorian literature , culture, and media; digital humanities ; technology and the liberal arts.[4]
Byerly was at Middlebury College in Vermont from 1989, serving as provost and executive Vice President from 2007 to 2012. She has been a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Stanford University , and Oxford University .[5]
Byerly became president of Lafayette College in 2013, and in 2016 launched a 10-year plan to increase the student body by 16 percent, more than double the financial aid budget, and create 40 new faculty positions with a goal of allowing Lafayette to admit more students without regard for their ability to pay.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
In August 2021, Byerly became president of Carleton College.[13]
Personal life [ edit ]
Byerly is married to Stephen Jensen, a medical editor. They have a daughter and a son.[14] [15]
She is known to students at both Carleton and Lafayette Colleges as "Ally B."[16]
Published works [ edit ]
She has written Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cambridge, 1998), and Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism (U of Michigan, 2012).[4]
References [ edit ]
^ "Lafayette College Names First Female President" . cbslocal.com . 16 January 2013.
^ a b "Literature at MIT" . Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2013-01-22 .
^ "Alison Byerly Named President of Lafayette College" . Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2013-01-22 .
^ "Strategic Direction · The President · Lafayette College" . president.lafayette.edu . Retrieved 2019-11-13 .
^ "Strategic Direction Annual Report, May 2019" (PDF) .
^ "Fall 2019 Newsletter |" . American Talent Initiative . Retrieved 2019-11-19 .
^ "Live Connected, Lead Change, Lafayette College" . liveconnected.lafayette.edu . Retrieved 2019-11-13 .
^ "Celebrating Rockwell" . News . 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2019-11-13 .
^ "Alison R. Byerly Named Lafayette College's 17th President" . PRWeb . 17 January 2013.
^ Abrams, Tanya (16 January 2013). "Lafayette Selects Its First Female President" . Retrieved 29 November 2021 .
^ "New Carleton College president with a flair for fundraising focuses on making campus more inclusive" . Star Tribune . 21 August 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021 .
^ "Lafayette College introduces Alison Byerly as its first female presid…" . Archived from the original on 16 February 2013.
^ "Carleton College Voice: Laird 100: New Kid At School" .
^ "An interview with incoming president Alison Byerly" .
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