Leading without the script: How a first‐gen president rewrites what higher ed can be
Abstract
When Dr. Susan R. Burns left the suburbs of Topeka, Kansas, for college, she wasn’t following a well‐trodden family path. She was the third daughter in a tight‐knit Midwestern family, but the first to leave home for higher education. “I had no idea what I was doing,” she said. “I was a good student … and I knew more school meant more money, so I was just trying to get through school fast.”
Fields of Study & Subjects
Higher Education Research Studies
Higher Education Governance and Development
Education
Leadership
and Health Research
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The Successful Registrar
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 5–6
- Publication date
- 11 March 2026
- Language
- EN