Bryce Jordan

{{Short description|President of Penn State University}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Bryce Jordan

| image = Penn State president Bryce Jordan with Ronald Reagan (cropped).jpg

| caption = Jordan in February 1987

| order = 14th

| title = President of the Pennsylvania State University

| term_start = 1983

| term_end = 1990

| predecessor = John W. Oswald

| successor = Joab Thomas

| title2 = President of the University of Texas at Dallas

| term_start2 = 1971

| term_end2 = 1982

| preceded2 = Francis S. Johnson (interim)

| succeeded2 = Robert H. Rutford

| title3 = President of the University of Texas at Austin

| term_label3 = Interim

| term_start3 = 1970

| term_end3 = 1971

| preceded3 = Norman Hackerman

| succeeded3 = Stephen Hopkins Spurr

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|9|22}}

| birth_name = Henry Bryce Jordan

| birth_place = Clovis, New Mexico, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|4|12|1924|9|22}}

| death_place = Austin, Texas, U.S.

| alma_mater = University of Texas at Austin
University of North Carolina
Hardin–Simmons University

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Henry Bryce Jordan (September 22, 1924 – April 12, 2016) was an American university administrator and musicologist.{{cite web|title=Dr. Henry Bryce Jordan|url=http://www.hsutx.edu/Hall-of-Leaders/Dr--Henry-Bryce-Jordan/|publisher=Hardin-Simmons University|accessdate=26 July 2015}} He was the fourteenth president of the Pennsylvania State University,{{cite web

| url = http://www.lias.psu.edu/speccolls/psua/psgeneralhistory/presidents/jordan.htm

| publisher = Penn State

| title = BRYCE JORDAN (1983-1990) (Penn State Presidents Biography)

| accessdate = 2009-03-31

| url-status = dead

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070220030727/http://www.lias.psu.edu/speccolls/psua/psgeneralhistory/presidents/jordan.htm

| archivedate = 2007-02-20

}} serving from 1983 until 1990. Prior to that, he served as interim president of the University of Texas at Austin from 1970 to 1971 and as first president of the University of Texas at Dallas from 1971 to 1982.{{cite web|url=http://ah.utdallas.edu/prospective_students/bryce_awards.html |title=Bryce and Jonelle Jordan Award |publisher=University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities |accessdate=2009-03-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214194452/http://ah.utdallas.edu/prospective_students/bryce_awards.html |archivedate=February 14, 2008 }}

During Jordan's tenure at Penn State, the university became the 11th member of the Big Ten Conference in 1990.

Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center, the university's indoor arena and one of the largest arenas in the state, is named after him. He died on April 12, 2016, in Austin, Texas.{{cite news|title=Former Penn State President Bryce Jordan dies at 91|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160413_ap_830f8eaf3ce84a06bd764bbb6aecec67.html|accessdate=14 April 2016|agency=AP|publisher=Philly.com|date=13 April 2016}}