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Jerry Herron is an American academic, the founding dean and dean emeritus of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University, and the former president of the National Collegiate Honors Council.

Education and career

Herron graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971, and attended Indiana University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1974 and completing his Ph.D. in 1980. He joined Wayne State as an assistant professor of English in 1980, was promoted to full professor in 1993, and retired in 2019. He became founding dean of the Reid Honors College in 2008, and stepped down to become dean emeritus in 2018.

He served as president of the National Collegiate Honors Council for 2015–2016. He was named an NCHC Fellow in 2018.

Books

Herron has written two books: Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline (1988) and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History (1993).

References

1. "Jerry Herron". Profiles. Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State University. 19 October 2018.
2. ^ "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). National Collegiate Honors Council. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
3. Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline, Wayne State University Press, 1988. Reviews:
   • Brereton, John (November 1991). "Learning who we are". College English. 53 (7): 826–830. doi:10.2307/377825. JSTOR 377825.
   • Collins, James (September 1989). Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 20 (3): 246–248. doi:10.1525/aeq.1989.20.3.04x0662l. JSTOR 3195637.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
4. AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History, Wayne State University Press, 1993. Reviews:
   • Burnier, D. (December 1994). Journal of Urban Affairs. 16 (4): 395–399. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1994.tb00338.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Pinsker, Sanford (Summer 1995). "Mapping America from odd angles". The Georgia Review. 49 (2): 491–500. JSTOR 41400820.
   • Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney (Spring 1995). Michigan Historical Review. 21 (1): 168–169. doi:10.2307/20173505. JSTOR 20173505.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

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