Background
Creighton was born in Marinette, Wisconsin.
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Joanne Vanish Creighton
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Education
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Career
On August 10, 2011, the Board of Managers named her interim President of, replacing Stephen G. Emerson, who resigned. taught at Wayne State University from 1968–1985 and became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1985. She then served as the vice president for academic affairs and provost and professor of English from 1990-1994 at Wesleyan University and was Wesleyan"s interim president from 1994 to 1995. joined as president in 1996. She was chosen, in part, due to her history as an advocate for the tradition of American liberal arts colleges ( has commented that such an education is "at its best, revolutionary lieutenant transforms students.
lieutenant awakens them to a fuller life of the mind" ) As president, initiated the Plans for Mount Holyoke for 2003 and 2010 which "led to the creation of three new interdisciplinary centers: the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts, the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives, and the Center for the Environment." This involvement would later be credited as leading to the further development of Mount Holyoke: "it is a testament to the cohesive sense of purpose articulated in two strategic plans, shared across the institution, and so carefully nurtured by Joanne "s artful leadership." While at Mount Holyoke, also became involved with Women"s Education Worldwide, an alliance of institutions of higher education whose goal is to advance women"s education around the globe.
This international initiative was founded in 2003 by Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, two of the original Seven Sisters (colleges) of United States. higher education. On February 25, 2009, announced that she would step down as president at the end of the 2009—2010 academic year.
On May 6, 2010, Leslie Anne Miller (Board of Trustees) announced that the New Residence Hall would thereby be named Hall (colloquially known as "NoJo" and "SoJo" or "NoJoJo" and "SoJoJo" halls, in reference to the president"s common nickname among students, JoJo). Women"s colleges has written extensively on the subject of women"s colleges.
She suggests a link in a 21 May 2007 article for The Boston Globe between Drew Gilpin Faust"s (a woman"s college graduate) new role as Harvard University"s first female president and the continuing importance of women"s colleges.
She also compares women"s colleges to Virginia Woolf"s, A Room of One"s Own. This article was taken from a longer paper, "A Tradition of Their Own or, If a Woman Can Now Be President of Harvard, Why Do We Still Need Women"s Colleges?" delivered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on April 16, 2007. On August 10, 2011, announced that would serve as its Interim President.
