Year Inducted
1976
Career Field
Higher Education
Highlights
- First VP of Academic Affairs in Board of Regents System in Kansas
- First woman President for Kentucky System of higher education
- First woman President of SE Missouri State University
- First woman President of the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference
- One of the first women Presidents on the NCAA Presidents Commission
- Commissioner of Higher Education in Missouri, serving on the Governor's Cabinet until 2002
- Former President of American Humanics
- Former President of Murray State University in Kentucky and Southeast Missouri State University
- Dean of Women at the University of Kansas
- Recipient of the Alumni Honor Citation from the KU Division of Speech and Drama