Karen Schuster Webb

Karen Schuster Webb is an American academic administrator who served as the sixth and final president of the Union Institute & University from 2018 until its closure in 2024. She was president of Antioch University Midwest from 2014 to 2016.

Life Webb was born to Corinne Perryman and Louis H. Schuster, II. She earned a B.A. in Spanish, a M.S. in education, and a Ph.D. in English education and second language studies from the Indiana University Bloomington. Webb's 1980 dissertation at the Indiana University School of Education was titled, A Study of Cognitive Processing Strategies for the Encoding of English Idioms into Long-Term Memory: A Study of Native, Advanced Nonnative, and Low Intermediate Nonnative Speakers of English. From 1992 to 1998, she was the program director for language education programs at the University of Kentucky. Her position as a campus president was terminated in 2016.

On July 1, 2018, Webb became the sixth president of the Union Institute & University. Facing serious financial challenges, Union closed permanently on June 30, 2024.

Webb married Wallace H. Webb, II.