Donna Souder Hodge, Ph.D.

Dr. Souder Hodge is the Vice President of Operations and Advancement at Colorado State University Pueblo (CSU Pueblo). She directs and oversees Facilities Management, Auxiliary Services, and the Advancement team, which includes mission-driven fundraising, $34M in CSU System funding, as well as the people and programming to support more than $16 million in federal Hispanic Serving Institution program grants from the Department of Ed. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Education News, International Business Times, and has been recognized by AASCU as one of the organization’s 2021 Excellence and Innovation awardees.

Donna has a Ph.D. in Classical Rhetoric and Master Degrees in English and Women's Studies. In 2017, she completed the MIT Sloan School of Management's Executive Program in Business Process Design Strategic Management. In 2019, she was accepted into the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Executive Leadership Program as an AALI Fellow. In 2022, she joined a cohort of higher education leaders at Harvard’s Institute of Education Management, a year-long program from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Network of Women Leaders (CONWL) — a regional chapter of the American Council on Education (ACE) and was the 2020 Director of CONWL’s signature program, the Academic Management Institute. Donna is a member of the CSU Pueblo President's Cabinet, President’s Budget Advisory Board, and University Leadership Team. Donna is a tenured Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of English & World Languages.