Executive Vice President Susan Huber to retire June 2014

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St. Thomas’ executive vice president and chief academic officer Susan Huber will retire from her position on June 30, 2014.

Huber, who has held faculty and administrative positions at St. Thomas since 1992, met with president-elect Julie Sullivan and committed to stay in her position for another year. Sullivan said she will launch a national search next fall to replace Huber.

<p>Susan Huber, executive vice president and chief academic officer since 2008, will retire from her position in June 2014. Huber has held a faculty or administrative position with St. Thomas since 1992. (Photo courtesy of Mike Ekern) </p>
Susan Huber, executive vice president and chief academic officer since 2008, will retire from her position in June 2014. Huber has held a faculty or administrative position with St. Thomas since 1992. (Photo courtesy of Mike Ekern)

“I am pleased and grateful that Sue will remain with St. Thomas for another academic year,” Sullivan said to the St. Thomas Newsroom. “Continuity is necessary in a position as critical as chief academic officer, especially with issues such as our accreditation visit this fall. It’s important that Sue is involved in those issues.”

Huber first joined St. Thomas as a graduate student, during which time she earned her master’s in curriculum and instruction and a doctorate in educational leadership. Her bachelor’s degree in Latin and English is from the former College of St. Teresa in Winona.

Huber was an English teacher in Burnsville and Roseville public schools and taught English as a Second Language at Hamline before she moved to St. Andrew’s Catholic School in St. Paul as an English teacher and then principal. She was dean of continuing education and special programs at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota before joining the St. Thomas School of Education faculty.

In 1992, she began her position as chair of the Teacher Education Department and was associate dean of the School of Education before she was appointed interim dean in 2006. She became the first dean of the College of Applied Professional Studies in 2007 after a decision to bring the School of Education and the Graduate School of Professional Psychology into the new college (since renamed the College of Education, Learning and Counseling).

Doug Hennes, vice president of university and government relations, said Huber has been very effective in the positions she has held.

“She’s had a lot of responsibility and an increasing amount over the years. She’s brought an open and engaging style to those jobs and she’s done very well with them. That openness and that sense of engagement will be missed,” Hennes said.

Briggs LeSavage can be reached at lesa4364@stthomas.edu.