Truman Board of Governors Appoints Darrell Krueger As Interim President

Sept. 19, 2008

KIRKSVILLE, Mo.- The Truman State University Board of Governors Chair Mark Wasinger announced today that Darrell Krueger has been appointed to serve as the interim president of Truman.    
    “We are very fortunate to have someone with such a wealth of higher education experience and a person who knows our University so well,” said Wasinger.
    “It is a great honor to be asked by the Board to serve as Truman’s interim president,” Krueger said. “I am thrilled to be returning to a University and community that my family and I love. I look forward to working with the campus community to continue to move the University forward.”
    Krueger served as the 13th president of Winona State University from 1989 until his retirement in 2005.  During his tenure as president he was nationally recognized for his work in outcomes assessment. Under his leadership, Winona State University became one of the most technologically advanced universities in the nation with one of the largest laptop university programs supporting more than 8,000 laptop computers across campus.
    Under Krueger's leadership a comprehensive campus master plan was developed that included enhancement of campus green spaces, a new library that opened in 1999 and a state-of-the-art science laboratory center that was dedicated in fall 2004.
    Before going to Winona, Krueger served for 16 years as the vice president for academic affairs and dean of instruction at Truman State University. For two years prior to that appointment he served as an assistant professor of political science at Truman.
      Krueger graduated summa cum laude as co-valedictorian from Southern Utah State College in Cedar City in 1967, with a bachelor of arts degree in political science and history.  He earned a master's degree in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is the 50th Woodrow Wilson Fellow to become a president and he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Krueger and his wife Nancy have four children, two of whom graduated from Truman.
    Krueger will begin his duties Oct. 16, 2008. He succeeds Barbara Dixon who resigned as Truman’s president earlier this week after serving as president for five years.
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