Susanne Woods | |
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President-elect of the College of Wooster | |
In office April 6, 1995 –June 30, 1995 | |
Preceded by | Henry Copeland |
Succeeded by | R. Stanton Hales |
Personal details | |
Born | Frances Susanne Woods 1943 (age 80–81) Hawaii,U.S. |
Spouse | Anne Shaver |
Education | University of California,Los Angeles Columbia University |
Frances Susanne Woods (born 1943) is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who was the provost of Wheaton College from 1999 to 2006. She was the president-elect of the College of Wooster in 1995. Woods was previously a faculty member at Brown University for nineteen years.
Woods was born in 1943 in Hawaii. [1] [2] She earned a degree in political science and English from the University of California,Los Angeles. [3] She earned a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in 1970. [4] [3] Her dissertation was titled,The Poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh. [1]
Woods taught at the University of Hawaiʻi. She worked at Brown University for nineteen years. [3] While at Brown,she was an English professor,associate dean of faculty,and director of the women writers project. [4] At Franklin &Marshall College,she was the a provost,dean and vice president for academic affairs. [4] [3]
On April 6,1995,Woods was selected as the president-elect of the College of Wooster. [3] She was set to succeed Henry Copeland on July 1,1995,to become the first female president of the institution. [3] In an April meeting to express grievances about the selection process,James Perley,a biology professor and president of the American Association of University Professors,shared a Denison University telephone directory listing Woods as the partner of Anne Shaver,an English professor. [3] An anonymous letter was later distributed suggesting Woods was a lesbian. [3] Woods withdrew from the position of president-elect on June 30,1995. [5] She was given a severance package distributed over a twenty-four month period. [3] [6]
From 1999 to 2006,Woods was provost of Wheaton College. [4] In 2012,she joined the board of governors of the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys. She served as the interim chair during recovery efforts after Hurricane Irma. [2] Woods later chaired the board for over two years. [2] She moved to Hawaii for one year before returning in 2019 to chair the board for another two years. [2] She stepped down in 2022. [2]
As of 2022,Woods lives on Sugarloaf Key with her wife,Shaver. [2]
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