Karen Halbersleben
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Karen Halbersleben is the president of Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. Having become the first female president of the private university since its founding in 1892, she succeded Robert Rue Parsonage, who retired from the position in 2002.
As the 11th president of Northland College, Karen Halbersleben said she does not want to stop dreaming about how to make the college a better place.
She is the author of a book titled Women's Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865.
Raised in Buffalo, New York, Halbersleben received her Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo before teaching at SUNY-Oswego, where she was promoted to the administration before moving on to Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa in 1998. She was serving as the vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty at Buena Vista when she was selected as Northland's president.
