Joel Read
Sister Joel Read was an American religious sister and the president of Alverno College from 1968 until 2003.Biography
Janice Anne Read was born on December 30, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois. She joined the School Sisters of St. Francis in 1942. Read graduated from Fordham University and Alverno College. She was one of the founding members of the National Organization for Women. She died on May 25, 2017 at the age of 91.Academic career
Read began teaching history at Alverno College in 1955. In 1968, she was appointed to be the college's sixth president.
In 1985, she was elected to the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other education boards she has served on include the Foundation for Independent Higher Education, the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the National Catholic Educational Association. In 2000, she received the Lifetime Leadership Award from the Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership.
Read retired in 2003. Her tenure as president is the longest of any college president in Alverno College's history.
