Herron Jerry

American academic, the founding dean and dean emeritus of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan), and the president of the National Collegiate Honors Council from 2015–2016. Herron has written two books, Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline (1988) and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History (1993). Herron graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971, and went to Indiana University for graduate study, earning a masters degree in 1974 and completing his PhD 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. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less