Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson

Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson is an American academic administrator who was the founding president of Pennsylvania Western University from 2022 to 2023.

Life Pehrsson graduated from the University at Albany, SUNY. She earned master's degrees in counseling and education and a D.Ed. in counselor education and counseling from Idaho State University. Her 1991 dissertation was titled, Representational Theory of Play Therapy: The Development of a Theoretical Framework. Virginia B. Allen was her doctoral advisor. She served as president of the merger of three universities which unified as Pennsylvania Western University on July 1, 2022.