Karen Schuster Webb is an American academic administrator who served as the sixth and final president of the Union Institute & University from 2018 until its closure in 2024.
[2] Webb's 1980 dissertation at the Indiana University School of Education was titled, A Study of Cognitive Processing Strategies for the Encoding of English Idioms into Long-Term Memory: A Study of Native, Advanced Nonnative, and Low Intermediate Nonnative Speakers of English.
[4] She cofounded and co-directed its center for the study of academy achievement in learning environments from 1994 to 1998.
[4] Webb was an associate provost for community engagement and was the founding dean of the Shirley M. Hufstedler School of Education at the Alliant International University.
[5] In October 2023, fifty doctoral students at Union signed a letter saying that she should resign as president “due to her creation of and subsequent failure to address the financial crisis, as well as her lack of transparency and empathy.”[8] Facing serious financial challenges, Union closed permanently on June 30, 2024.