Office of the President

Meet the President

Rodney L. Lowman Ph.D. is Lake Superior State University's sixth president.

Before coming to LSSU, Dr. Lowman was Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Alliant, a private university of about 4,000 students. He was with Alliant for nine years, including several months' service as Acting President in 2004. Prior to becoming Provost, he was dean and professor in Alliant's California School of Organizational Studies (now Marshall Goldsmith School of Management), with programs offering advanced degrees in Industrial-Organizational psychology, Clinical/Organizational psychology, Organization Development, Consulting psychology and Organizational Behavior. He also has served as Director of Alliant's Organizational Consulting Center, a university-based consulting firm.

Dr. Lowman enjoys bringing people together to work toward common goals. He believes that this is particularly important in addressing LSSU's enrollment and retention needs and in making the institution's considerable strengths more visible.

"Lake Superior State University employs people who are passionate about education and who care about the students," he said. "With our knowledgeable faculty and staff, my hope is to make the institution better known in the state and region, as well as nationally and internationally, for its fine work in providing quality academic programs in a caring, safe and supportive environment."

Dr. Lowman was born in Oklahoma, where his father served in the US Air Force. His mother was born in Central America and raised in Honduras, Guatemala and New Orleans. He has called several parts of the country home while his father served with the military as a pilot, wing commander and senior administrator.

Dr. and Mrs. Linda Richardson Lowman are both trained psychologists. Linda, who also trained as a psychiatric nurse, has specialized in the mental health needs of incarcerated populations and is an expert in working with the seriously mentally ill. Their daughter, a graduate from Johns Hopkins University, was a Fulbright Fellow in Berlin, Germany, before working for the Teach for America organization in New York.

Dr. Lowman is a Fellow in the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, the Society of Clinical Psychology and the Society of Consulting Psychology, and has won numerous awards. He is widely published in professional literature and is well known for his work on ethics, career assessment and counseling and occupational mental health. His professional experience includes service as department head and professor of psychology, leading a successful organizational consulting business and heading up occupational mental health programs at a major private university. Early in his professional career, Dr. Lowman was a faculty member at the Institute for Social Research and Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Widely published, Dr. Lowman has authored or edited nine books and monographs, has edited two professional journals, published over 100 articles and book chapters, and has made hundreds of juried professional presentations all over the world. Currently, he heads the Strategic Planning Advisory Committee for the CEO of the American Psychological Association, a 145,000-member association. He is past president of the Society of Psychologists in Management and the Society of Consulting Psychology.

Dr. Lowman's doctoral degree is in psychology with specializations in Industrial-Organizational and Clinical Psychology, and he holds a master's degree in psychology, both from Michigan State University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in psychology from University of Oklahoma and a bachelor's degree in business from Oklahoma State University. He also completed an APA-approved Clinical Psychology internship at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, formerly the APA-approved Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences.