In July of 1991, Dr. Arthur J. Lendo succeeded Dr. Raymond C. Lewin as Peirce College president and immediately set about modernizing Peirce College’s learning platforms for working adult learners. Peirce needed to establish itself as the college for working adults, and Dr. Lendo’s great vision of taking the college to the student made it happen. During his tenure, he guided Peirce’s evolution into a leading-edge 21st-century institution with national scope and international reach.

At the time he accepted the presidency, Dr. Lendo was already widely recognized as a trailblazer in developing innovative academic programming, marketing and development. He brought 23 years of administrative and teaching experience to Peirce College and was abundantly familiar with management development, continuing education and cooperative education programs. His educational background included a Ph.D in education administration with a minor in organizational studies from Boston College, a master’s degree in higher education administration from American University and a bachelor’s of finance from the University of Notre Dame.

Prior to joining Peirce, Dr. Lendo had been Dean of the University College of Philadelphia’s St. Joseph’s University since 1985. His leadership roles also included directorial positions at Northeastern University, Boston College and American University as well as time spent teaching in New Jersey. A published author whose works were feature in Thomson-Reuters and Aspatore Books publications, Dr. Lendo would go on to have the distinction of presenting a major policy paper at Oxford University in 2004. The paper focused on asynchronous online learning, a college delivery platform that represented the future of higher education.