Bryce Jordan (born September 22, 1924) was the fourteenth president of the Pennsylvania State University, 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 1981.
During Jordan's tenure at Penn State, the university became the 11th member of the Big Ten Conference in 1989. Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center is named after him. His field of study is musicology. A boy was named after him in 1999, Bryce Jordan Allen, son of Todd Anthony Allen, communication teacher at Geneva College, and Lonette Allen, was in a newspaper article about whom he was named after.
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