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Dame Jean Marjory Herbison (29 April 1923 – 20 May 2007) was a New Zealand academic, educator, researcher and Chancellor of the University of Canterbury. She was the first woman to hold the post of chancellor at a New Zealand university.
Biography
Herbison was born in Dunedin in 1923, and attended Southland Girls' High School. She earned a BA from the University of Canterbury, a Diploma of Teaching from Auckland Teachers College, and an MA from the University of Northern Iowa. She was an Associate of the University of London Institute of Education. She has held a Fulbright Scholarship and an Imperial Relations Trust Fellowship.
She taught at Avonside Girls' High School from 1952 to 1959, and in 1960 became Dean of Christchurch Teachers' College. From 1968 to 1974 she was Vice-Principal of the Teachers College and in 1975 became associate director of Christchurch Polytechnic, a position she held until her retirement in 1984. She was elected to the Council of the University of Canterbury in 1970 and was Chancellor of the university from 1979 to 1984.
Herbison was a Fellow of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and the New Zealand Educational Administration and Leadership Society. She was an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) and the New Zealand Institute of Management.
Herbison lived in retirement in Christchurch before her death in 2007.
Honours and awards
In the 1976 Queen's Birthday Honours, Herbision was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for services to education, and in 1977 she was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal.
She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to education, in the 1985 Queen's Birthday Honours. In 1987 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Canterbury.
Jean Herbison Lecture
Since 1990 the Jean Herbison Lecture at the New Zealand Association for Research in Education honours Herbison.
2023 Alex Gunn
2022 John O'Neill
2021 Melinda Webber
2020 no conference
2019 Sonja Lee MacFarlane
2018 Rae Siilata
2017 Leonie Pihama
2016 Helen May
2015 Joce Jesson
2014 Graham Hingangaroa Smith
2013 Martin Thrupp
2012 Peter Roberts
2011 Wally Penetito
2010 Stuart McNaughton
2009 Cathy Wylie
2008 Joy Cullen
2007 Keith Ballard
2006 Geraldine McDonald
2005 Noeline Alcorn
2004 Alison Jones
2003 Margaret Carr
2001 Graham Nuthall
2000 Margaret Maaka
1999 William Tunmer
1998 Linda Smith
1997 Marie Clay
1996 Arapera Royal Tangaere
1995 Ivan Snook
1994 Warwick Elley
1993 Geraldine McDonald
1992 Noeline Alcorn
1991 Anne Smith
1990 Anne Meade
References
External links
NZARE website/bio