WVU Parkersburg Campus President
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WVU Parkersburg President's Office 300 Campus Drive Parkersburg, WV 26104 304-424-8200 |
Marie Foster Gnage, Ph.D. BIOGRAPHY Marie Foster Gnage became the sixth president of West Virginia University at Parkersburg in July of 2004. In addition to serving as president of the Parkersburg campus, she also is a regional vice president of West Virginia University. Prior to assuming the presidency at WVU Parkersburg, she served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Raritan Valley Community College in North Branch, NJ; Assistant Vice Chancellor for Education Services at Pima Community College in Tucson, Ariz.; Vice President for Instruction at Central Florida Community College in Ocala, Fla.; Dean of Academic Affairs at Broward Community College, North Campus in Coconut Creek, Fla., and Department Head of English/ESL at Broward Community College. She was an ACE Fellow through the American Council on Education Fellows Program with Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S.C., serving as the host institution. She also served as Assistant Professor of English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.Currently, she serves as a member of the St. Joseph’s Hospital Board of Trustees, The Parkersburg Art Center Board of Trustees, the Workforce Investment Board, the American Association of Community Colleges Commission on Academic, Student and Community Development, the Black Diamond Girl Scout Board, the Economic Roundtable of Ohio Valley Directors, and Women’s Business Enterprise Board of Directors, and The Huntington National Bank West Virginia Board of Directors. She has served on the faculty for American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows Seminar’s, and the American Association of Community Colleges Future Leaders Institute; she attended the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents; the 52nd Annual National Security Forum of the Air War College; and was recently elected to the American Association of Community Colleges Presidents Academy Executive Committee. Dr. Gnage has several publications including “Voice, Mind, Self: Mother and Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan’s Fiction,” in Women of Color, UP Press (Fall 1996), A Bio-bibliography of Southern Black Creative Writers, 1829 – 1953, Greenwood Press, Inc., (1988), and “Reconfiguring Self: A Matter of Place in Selected Novels by Paul Marshall,” in Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature, The Ohio University Press (2006) Dr. Gnage holds a bachelor's degree in English from Alcorn A&M College, Lorman, Miss.; a master's degree in English from University of Southwestern Louisiana, and doctoral degree in English (American Literature) from The Florida State University. Dr. Gnage is the first African-American female to be appointed president of a college or university in West Virginia. She was presented with the Empowerment Inspiration Award given by the West Virginia Minority Business Development Center to individuals for their significant achievements/accomplishments, inspiring others by example and guidance, and continuing to excel in personal and professional goals and objectives, and the Women of Excellence Award for Trail Blazing awarded by Altrusa International, Inc. to women that have made inroads in their careers and/or community that have never be done before. |
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