Carol Harter

Carol Harter
7th President of the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
In office
1995–2006
Preceded byKenny Guinn (interim)
Succeeded byDavid B. Ashley
Personal details
Born(1941-06-01)June 1, 1941
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 14, 2023(2023-09-14) (aged 82)
San Diego, California, U.S.
SpouseMichael Thomas Harter
Children2
Binghamton University
Websitehttps://president.unlv.edu

Carol Ann Clancey Harter (June 1, 1941 – September 14, 2023) was an American academic administrator and Faulkner scholar. She was the seventh president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), serving from 1995 to 2006. She was the first woman president at UNLV, and the first woman president of the State University of New York at Geneseo, where she was the executive from 1989 to 1995.

Early life and education

Harter was born in Brooklyn, New York,[1] the daughter of Ross H. Clancey and Catherine Schweitzer Clancey. Her father was a financial planner. She earned her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in English from Binghamton University.[2] Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled "The diaphoric structure and unity of William Faulkner's Go Down Moses" (1970).[3]

Career

Harter became a faculty member in the English department at Ohio University in 1970. She moved into administrative roles there, as ombudsman, dean of students, and vice-president for administration.[1] In 1985 she was a finalist for the presidency of Western Michigan University.[4] She was the eleventh president of SUNY Geneseo, which she led for six years, from 1989 to 1995.[5][6] She was the first woman president of SUNY Geneseo.[7] In 1994 she was a finalist for the presidency of Ohio State University.[8]

Harter was the seventh president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, serving from 1995[9] to 2006; she was the longest-serving president in UNLV history.[10] Her tenure as president saw UNLV's academic status improve, and its library expanded and upgraded.[11] She was succeeded as president of UNLV by David B. Ashley on July 1, 2006. At her retirement from the UNLV presidency, Harter became executive director of UNLV's new Black Mountain Institute (BMI), now renamed the Beverly Rogers and Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute.[12][13]

Publications

  • "The Winter of Isaac McCaslin: Revisions and Irony in Faulkner's 'Delta Autumn'" (1970)[14]
  • "Recent Faulkner Scholarship: Five More Turns of the Screw" (1974, review essay)[15]
  • "America as' Consumer Garden': The Nightmare Vision of Joyce Carol Oates" (1974)[16]
  • From Athens Out: Fiction, Poetry, Drama of the Ohio University Writers (1975, with Robert J. DeMott)[17]
  • "Women and Minority Professional Staff in Student Personnel" (1982, with Gary Moden and Peter A. Wilson)[18]
  • "Pataki's budget threatens access to, success of universities" (1995, op-ed piece)[19]

Personal life

Clancey married fellow academic Michael Harter in 1961. They had two sons. She died on September 14, 2023, at the age of 82, in San Diego, California.[5][10] There is a large classroom building complex at UNLV named for Harter.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b DiBella, Suzan (Spring 2001). "On a More Personal Note". UNLV Magazine. 9 (2): 16–23.
  2. ^ "SUAB Announces Area Recipients of B.A. Degrees". Press and Sun-Bulletin. July 15, 1970. p. 62. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Harter, Carol (January 1, 1970). "The diaphoric structure and unity of William Faulkner's Go Down Moses". Graduate Dissertations and Theses.
  4. ^ Jahnke, Pam (April 16, 1985). "Ohio administrator checks out WMU". The Kalamazoo Gazette. p. 10. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b "Carol Ann Harter (obituary)". Democrat and Chronicle. September 27, 2023. pp. A8. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
  6. ^ "Carol C. Harter named 11th Geneseo president". The Buffalo News. April 27, 1989. p. 4. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Wagner, M. Kathleen (August 4, 1989). "'Enhance and expand' a good institution; New SUNY Geneseo president wants to do some fine tuning". The Times-Union. p. 3. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Finnerty, Bob (March 1, 1994). "Geneseo president will stay; She withdraws name from Ohio finalists". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 9. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Geneseo prexy going to UNLV; Harter excited about challenge". The Times-Union. February 16, 1995. p. 15. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b Mueller, Tabitha; Solis, Jacob (September 15, 2023). "Carol Harter, UNLV's longest-serving and first female president, dies at age 82". The Nevada Independent. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
  11. ^ Rainey, James (February 28, 2000). "Challenges Abound as UNLV Goes After Academic Respect". The Los Angeles Times. p. 3. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Baude, Dawn-Michelle (October 25, 2015). "Top-shelf activities for the literary crowd". The Los Angeles Times. p. 71. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "$30M Rogers gift to aid UNLV program". Reno Gazette-Journal. March 21, 2015. pp. A5. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Harter, Carol Clancey (1970). "The Winter of Isaac McCaslin: Revisions and Irony in Faulkner's "Delta Autumn"". Journal of Modern Literature. 1 (2): 209–225. ISSN 0022-281X.
  15. ^ Harter, Carol Clancey (1974). Bedell, George C.; Early, James; Langford, Gerald; Page, Sally R. (eds.). "Recent Faulkner Scholarship: Five More Turns of the Screw". Journal of Modern Literature. 4 (1): 139–145. ISSN 0022-281X.
  16. ^ Harter, Carol. "America as' Consumer Garden': The Nightmare Vision of Joyce Carol Oates." Revue des Langues Vivantes Bicentennial 1976 (1974): 171.
  17. ^ DeMott, Robert J., and Carol Ann Clancey Harter. From Athens Out: Fiction, Poetry, Drama of the Ohio University Writers. Ohio University Graphics Reproduction, 1975.
  18. ^ Harter, Carol; Moden, Gary; Wilson, Peter A. (September 1982). "Women and Minority Professional Staff in Student Personnel: A Census and Analysis". NASPA Journal. 20 (2): 42–50. doi:10.1080/00220973.1982.11071842. ISSN 0027-6014.
  19. ^ Harter, Carol Clancey (February 10, 1995). "Pataki's budget threatens access to, success of universities". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 11. Retrieved May 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Carol C. Harter Classroom Building Complex". UNLV Campus Maps. June 21, 2010. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
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