Karen Schuster Webb is an American academic administrator serving as the sixth president of the Union Institute & University since 2018. She was president of Antioch University Midwest from 2014 to 2016.
Webb was born to Corinne Perryman and Louis H. Schuster, II.[1] She earned a B.A. in Spanish, a M.S. in education, and a Ph.D. in English education and second language studies from the Indiana University Bloomington.[2] Webb's 1980 dissertation at the Indiana University School of Education was titled, A Study of Cognitive Processing Strategies for the Encoding of English Idioms into Long-Term Memory: A Study of Native, Advanced Nonnative, and Low Intermediate Nonnative Speakers of English.[1] Harry L. Gradman was her doctoral advisor.[1]
Webb worked at Howard University, Indiana University Bloomington, and Coppin State University.[3][4] From 1992 to 1998, she was the program director for language education programs at the University of Kentucky.[4] She cofounded and co-directed its center for the study of academy achievement in learning environments from 1994 to 1998.[4] From 1998 to 2000, Webb was dean of the college of education at Southern University.[4] Webb was an associate provost for community engagement and was the founding dean of the Shirley M. Hufstedler School of Education at the Alliant International University.[2] In 2014, Webb became the fourth president of Antioch University Midwest and senior advisor for academic innovation do the chancellor of Antioch University.[5][6] Her position as a campus president was terminated in 2016.[7]
On July 1, 2018, Webb became the sixth president of the Union Institute & University.[5] In October 2023, fifty doctoral students at Union signed a letter saying that she should resign as president “due to her creation of and subsequent failure to address the financial crisis, as well as her lack of transparency and empathy.”[8] However, as of March 2024, she remains as President of Union despite serious financial challenges at the institution.[9][10][11][12]
Webb married Wallace H. Webb, II.[1] She has two children.[2] She resided in Milford, Ohio before purchasing a home in Bloomington, Indiana in December 2022.[13]
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