Truman
State University Foundation Board of Directors
Darrell Krueger, Interim President of Truman State University
Darrell
Krueger currently serves as interim president of Truman State
University. He served as the 13th president of Winona State University
from 1989 until his retirement in 2005. During his tenure as president
at Winona State University, he was nationally recognized for his work in
outcomes assessment. Under his leadership, Winona State University
became one of the most technologically advanced universities in the
nation with one of the largest laptop university programs supporting
more than 8,000 laptop computers across campus.
Under Krueger's leadership a comprehensive campus master plan was
developed that included enhancement of campus green spaces, a new
library that opened in 1999 and a state-of-the-art science laboratory
center that was dedicated in fall 2004.
Before going to Winona, Krueger served for 16 years as the vice
president for academic affairs and dean of instruction at Truman State
University. For two years prior to that appointment he served as an
assistant professor of political science at Truman.
Krueger graduated summa cum laude as co-valedictorian from Southern Utah
State College in Cedar City in 1967, with a bachelor of arts degree in
political science and history. He earned a master's degree in 1969 and a
Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is the 50th
Woodrow Wilson Fellow to become a president, and he is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa. Krueger and his wife Nancy have four children, two of whom
graduated from Truman.