Author Portfolio
Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive
By Susan Resneck Pierce, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, May 2014. ISBN: 978-1-118-73849-8 As pressures mount in the academic world, more …
On Being Presidential: A Guide for College and University Leaders
By Susan Resneck Pierce, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, November 2011. ISBN 978-1-118-02776-9 Adequate training is hard to come by and …
Ellison’s Invisible Man (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
By Susan Resneck Pierce (Parr), Modern Language Association of America; 1 edition (January 1, 1989). ISBN: 978-0873525060 …
The Moral of the Story: Literature, Values and American Education
By Susan Resneck Parr, Teachers College Pr (September 1982). ISBN: 978-0807727164 …
Toward a Smooth Presidential Transition
Originally published: "Toward a Smooth Presidential Transition," Trusteeship (AGB), September-October 2003 Trusteeship, v11 n5 p13-17 Sep-Oct 2003 Discusses the role of the board of trustees and the incumbent president in managing the transition to a new college...
Mission Possible: Mission-based Decisions Can Offer Immediate and Dramatic Benefits
Originally published: Mission Possible: Mission-based Decisions Can Offer Immediate and Dramatic Benefits, Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, March 2001 Many colleges and universities today are facing new external pressures, leading some to alter their...
Change & Its Consequences
Originally published: Change and Its Consequences, published in Liberal Education, Fall 2000 Most college administrators are being bombarded with reports urging change and describing how to effect it. At the same time, colleges and universities are faced with new...
Alcohol Policies Your Campus Can Live With
Originally published: Alcohol Policies Your Campus Can Live With, published in Trusteeship, March/April 2000 At a recent government-sponsored meeting on college drinking, I received a call from my office that a student from my own campus had been cited for creating a...
College Drinking: The Elephant on Campus
Originally published: College drinking: the elephant on campus, op-ed piece in The Seattle Times (January 31, 2000) Shortly after returning home from a National Institute on Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) meeting on college drinking, I learned that a student from...
Charting the Future: Puget Sound’s Next Decade
Originally published: Charting the Future: Puget Sound’s Next Decade, February 1999 The Board of Trustees has asked me to define my sense of what our institutional goals should be for the coming decade. I have welcomed the exercise because it has served to clarify my...
The Importance of Mission
Originally published: The Importance of Mission, The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa), Spring 1996 In the fall of 1993 the University of Puget Sound Board of Trustees accepted an offer from Seattle University to assume sponsorship of the Puget Sound School of Law....