George A. Condon Collection

George A. Condon, Ph.D. was the eldest of three children and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His father worked for Ford Motor Company and was a government employee for the city of Detroit. His mother was a math teacher and high school counselor. Condon attended Catholic grade school and later Detroit-Redford Public High School. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, all in political science. Condon spent time as a legislative staff assistant to political leaders including Governor Dan Evans of Washington State, U.S. Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and Speaker John McCormack of the U.S. House of Representatives. Condon was a member of the WSU political science faculty from 1961 to 1969. He directed WSU’s division of governmental studies and services, a research and service unit, from 1964 - 1969. He later became Dean of the University of Wisconsin Center at Rock Creek, Dean of Academic Administration at California State University, Northridge, and Vice President and Dean of Faculty of Shepherd College in West Virginia. Condon became the Academic Vice President of the College of the Virgin Islands, now known as University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas and St Croix, in 1981 and in 1983-1984 served as the acting president. He became the new director for the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education in Vancouver, Washington on August 15, 1985. The Joint Center, a consortium between Clark College, Evergreen State College and Washington State University, was a precursor to WSU's branch campus in Vancouver. The Joint Center was initially located at Hudson's Bay High School before operations moved to Bauer Hall on the Clark College campus.

Condon officially left on August 24th 1989 from the Joint Center after four years to take a position as Director of Regional Education and Dean of the Stockton Center at California State University, Stanislaus. Condon joined the University of the Pacific in 2002, focusing on undergraduate experiential learning, developing and administering the Jacoby Center's Sacramento and Washington, DC internship programs in the office of Washington State's governor and in the U.S Congress. He also contributes to various civic leadership programs sponsored by the Jacoby Center and the Division of Student Life.