Peggy Kuhr, currently Knight Chair on the Press, Leadership and Community in the school of journalism and mass communications at the University of Kansas, was selected from among four candidates interviewed for the job.
“She has the experience and competencies we need at this stage in the development of the school and the university,” UM president George Dennison said.
Kuhr has worked at the University of Kansas since 2002. Before that she held four editing positions - including managing editor for content at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., from 1986 to 2002.
During her tthere she was an adjunct faculty member for Eastern Washington University in Cheney during 1998-99 and Gonzaga University during 2000-01.
Her newspaper experience also includes stints at the Hartford Courant in Connecticut from 1983 to 1986 and the Great Falls Tribune from 1975 to 1986.
She earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and French from UM in 1973. During 1973-74 she used a Rotary International graduate fellowship to study Lettres Modernes at the Universite de Rouen in France. In 1981-82 she did postgraduate studies as a Michigan journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Kuhr then earned certification in negotiation and mediation from the National Center for Collaborative Planning and Community Services in 1990. She finished her master’s degree in organizational leadership at Gonzaga in 1993.
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