Bryce Jordan

Male, Person

1924 –

62

Who is Bryce Jordan?

Bryce Jordan was the fourteenth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1983 until 1990. Prior to that he served as interim president of the University of Texas at Austin from 1970 to 1971 and as first president of The University of Texas at Dallas from 1971 to 1982.

During Jordan's tenure at Penn State, the university became the 11th member of the Big Ten Conference in 1990. Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center is named after him. His field of study is musicology.

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Born
Sep 22, 1924
Clovis
Education
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Hardin-Simmons University
Employment
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Pennsylvania State University

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on July 23, 2013

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