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Sullivan, TWU leader in 1993-94, dies

Interim president left Denton to serve at UNC Greensboro

06:47 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan, who served as interim president for two years at Texas Woman’s University, died last week in North Carolina. She was 69.

Sullivan joined TWU’s biology faculty in 1979 and left in 1981 to become dean of Salem College in North Carolina.

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Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan

In 1987, she returned to TWU as vice president for academic affairs. She took over as interim president at TWU in 1993, after Shirley Chater accepted President Clinton’s appointment as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

In 1995, she became chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served until retiring in July 2008.

She had been battling pancreatic cancer, said Steve Gilliam, a spokesman for UNCG.

He said a funeral service was held Monday in Greensboro.

Gilliam said several UNC leaders spoke, including Erskine Bowles, president of the university system, and Sullivan’s longtime assistant, Cynthia Farris.

Sullivan graduated cum laude from St. John’s University in 1961. She earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in biology from New York University.

Survivors include her husband, Charles W. Sullivan.

—Staff report

 

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