Alison Byerly

Alison R. Byerly is an American academic who became the 17th president of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 2013.[1][2][3]

Alison Byerly
17th President of
Lafayette College
Assumed office
July 1, 2013
Preceded byDaniel Weiss
Personal details
Born1961
Spouse(s)Stephen Jensen
Children2
Alma materWellesley College
University of Pennsylvania
ProfessionProfessor
WebsiteOffice of the President

Early life

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 doctorate in English from Penn in 1989 where she was awarded a University Fellowship, the Dean's Fellowship, Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. At Wellesley, she was awarded Wellesley's Jacqueline Award in English Composition and Mary C. Lyons Prize in Writing.

Career

Byerly 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 from 1989, serving as provost and executive Vice President at Middlebury College in Vermont 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] By 2019, the aid budget had grown by 30 percent, the student body by 100 students, and the faculty by 11 positions.[7][8] Under Byerly's leadership, Lafayette also launched and completed its largest-ever fund-raising effort,[9] and opened its largest capital project ever, the Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center.[10] On October 6, 2020 she announced her decision to retire at Lafayette effective the end of the school year.[11][12]

Personal life

Byerly is married to Stephen Jensen, a medical editor. They have a daughter and a son.[13]

Published works

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
  1. "Alison Byerly Named President of Lafayette College". News. 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  2. "Alison Byerly named president of Lafayette College". Middlebury.
  3. "Lafayette College Names First Female President". cbslocal.com.
  4. "Literature at MIT". Literature at MIT. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
  5. "Alison Byerly Named President of Lafayette College". Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
  6. "Strategic Direction · The President · Lafayette College". president.lafayette.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  7. "Strategic Direction Annual Report, May 2019" (PDF).
  8. "Fall 2019 Newsletter |". American Talent Initiative. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
  9. "Live Connected, Lead Change, Lafayette College". liveconnected.lafayette.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  10. "Celebrating Rockwell". News. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  11. "Alison R. Byerly Named Lafayette College's 17th President". PRWeb. 17 January 2013.
  12. Abrams, Tanya. "Lafayette Selects Its First Female President".
Academic offices
Preceded by
Daniel Weiss		 President of Lafayette College
2013–Present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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