Jo Allen (academic administrator)

Jo Allen (born c. 1958) is an American academic administrator serving as the eighth president of Meredith College since 2011.

[1] Her father was formerly a prisoner in a German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II.

[1] Allen earned a bachelor's degree in English from Meredith College.

[1] She completed a master's degree in English literature at East Carolina University.

[2] She later worked as a professor of English, provost, and executive vice president at Widener University.