Draft:Anne Pruitt-Logan

Anne Pruitt-Logan (born September 19, 1929) served as a leading educator and college administrator at several different universities and was committed to providing access to education for historically underserved populations. She was the first black woman to hold the position of president at the American College Personnel Association and the first Black woman to serve as a full professor at Ohio State. Pruitt-Logan was featured on the cover of Black Issues in Higher Education and was named “Godmother of Minority Graduate Education.”

Early Life
Anne Loring Smith, was born to Loring A. Smith and Anne neé Ward in Bainbridge, Georgia, on September 19, 1929. At the end of World War II in 1945, she graduated from Hutto High School in Bainbridge.

Education
In 1949, she received her Bachelor of Science degree from Howard University, where she majored in Psychology and minored in Education and German. She then went on to attend Teachers College at Columbia University, receiving a master's degree in Guidance and Student Personnel Administration with a minor in Counseling in 1950 and in 1964, she earned her doctorate in Guidance and Student Personnel Administration.

Career
Pruitt-Logan served in the education and counseling field for 65 years. After she received her MA, she began her career at Howard University as a counselor for three years. She also served as a professor at Case Western Reserve University, Dean of Students at Fisk University, and Dean of Women at Albany (Ga.) State College. Before she retired from Ohio State University, she held the positions of Associate Dean of the graduate school, and Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence. At Ohio State, she created a ground-breaking new program, Teaching for Minority Student Retention, to help reduce classroom obstacles for minority students. After she left Ohio State, she took the position as dean in residence and scholar in residence for the Council of Graduate Schools. With a colleague, she created a new program, “Preparing Future Faculty,” for the reform of doctorate education.

Pruitt-Logan has participated in many professional organizations, such as the American College Personnel Association, American Educational Science Foundation, National Science Foundation, American Educational Research Association, and the Ohio Association of Counselor Education. She served on the board for the Southern Regional Education Board, the Southern Education Foundation, and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

While working with the Southern Education Foundation, she researched and developed reports on the employment practices and plans for desegregation of higher education states known as the “Adams States,” Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

Community Involvement
Pruitt-Logan has been involved with various organizations in her community. They include Group Guidance, Peoples Congressional United Church of Christ, the Black Women’s Agenda, Inc., the Columbus Foundation, American Red Cross, and the Commission on the Future at Clemson University. She was one of the pioneering members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Publications
Pruitt-Logan authored over 40 articles, book chapters, and books. In 2012, she co-authored Faithful to the Task at Hand: The Life of Lucy Diggs Slowe, a book that discusses the first Dean of Women at Howard University. Other works include “Black Employees in Traditionally White Institutions in the Adams States” and “New Students and Coordinated Counseling.”

Personal Life
She was married to Ralph L. Pruitt, Sr., and they had a daughter, Leslie. After her husband died, she married Harold G. Logan. As a professor emerita of Ohio State University, Pruitt-Logan conducts research, serves as a mentor to others in the field, and promotes her work. In her spare time, she reads, listens to music, and goes to concerts.

Awards
Pruitt-Logan has been honored numerous times throughout her celebrated career. She has earned the distinction of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ACPA, been named to America’s Top 100 Black Business and Professional Women at Dollars & Sense Magazine, and one of the “Top 25 Women in Higher Education” by Diverse Issues in Higher Education in 2013, and earned a doctorate of humane letters from Central State University. Additionally, she received the 1994 William H. Watson Jr. Memorial Award, and distinguished teaching and Distinguished Scholar Awards.

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