Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach
President of Salisbury University
 Janet Dudley-Eshbach became the
eighth president of Salisbury University in June 2000, the first
woman to hold the office in the University's
75-year history. During her ten years of leadership, SU has
earned a reputation as a Maryland campus on the move.
She has led the
campus, designated a growth institution by the University System
of Maryland, in new directions with initiatives such as
expanding shared governance, improving town-gown relations and
promoting increased diversity among students, faculty and staff.
A Latin American scholar who is fluent in Spanish, Dr.
Dudley-Eshbach also has championed international study and
service.
Every year
during her tenure SU has been among
U.S. News & World Report's Top Public Universities. Recently,
the campus of 8,200 was also named a "Best
Value" by
Kiplinger's Personal
Finance and The
Princeton Review in partnership with
USA Today. The Chronicle of
Higher Education also named SU one of its
"Great Colleges to Work For®" in 2009.
Dudley-Eshbach
oversaw the opening of one of the state’s largest science
facilities, Henson Science Hall, and SU's
$65 million Teacher Education and Technology Center, a showcase
building for education in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic region.
She also has been instrumental in the development of a new home
for SU's Perdue School of Business and
the expansion of campus grounds by more than 25 percent.
SU's president was elected to the board of
directors for the American Association of State Colleges and
Universities, which she also represents on the board of the
American Council on Education.
Recently named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by the
Baltimore-based Daily
Record for the third time, she is now a member of its Circle
of Excellence.
Prior to her
arrival at SU, Dudley-Eshbach served as president of Fairmont
State University in West Virginia and held faculty and
administrative positions at three other colleges and
universities. A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, she earned her Ph.D.
from El Colegio de Mexico in 1986.
A native of
Baltimore, she is married to Joseph Eshbach and has two adult
children.
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