Biography
Dr. Beth Weatherby became the 22nd chancellor of the University of Montana Western on January 15, 2015. She and her husband, Steve Kramer, moved to Dillon from Marshall, Minnesota, where they were both faculty members at Southwest Minnesota State University.
After ten years as the director of SMSU’s Creative Writing Program, Dr. Weatherby served there as Dean of Arts, Letters & Sciences for five years and then as Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs for eight years.
While at SMSU, she founded the New Works Faculty Forum, the Women’s Studies Program, and Connect, a networking organization for professional women in southwest Minnesota. She served on the advisory council of SMSU’s American Indian and Dakota Studies program, and on the boards of the Minnesota Agricultural and Rural Leadership Program, United Way, and the Southwest/West Central Higher Education Organization for Telecommunications and Technology.