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.[2]
He served as president of the National Collegiate Honors Council for 2015–2016. He was named an NCHC Fellow in 2018.[2]
Books
Herron has written two books: Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline (1988)[3] and AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History (1993).[4]
References
^"Jerry Herron". Profiles. Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State University. 19 October 2018.
^ ab"Curriculum vitae"(PDF). National Collegiate Honors Council. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
^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. JSTOR377825.
