University of North Texas 
Sandra Harper
Submitted on Friday, December 13, 2013Graduation Year: 1979
Sandra Harper (M.S., ’85 Ph.D), Abilene is the new president of McMurry University, the first woman serving as a full-time president of an Abilene university. She was president of Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge, La., and was a former dean and professor of communication at McMurry.