Sue Rankin

Rankin Climate
Sue Rankin.

Dr. Susan (Sue) Rankin retired from the Pennsylvania State University in 2013 where she most recently served as an Associate Professor of Education and Associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education. Dr. Rankin has presented and published widely on the intersections of identities and the impact of sexism, genderism, racism, and heterosexism in the academy and in intercollegiate athletics. In 2000, Dr. Rankin formed Rankin & Associates, Consulting, LLC, (renamed to Rankin Climate, LLC in 2022) a firm specializing in assisting institutions in maximizing equity and inclusion through assessment, planning, and change management strategies. Rankin Climate provides institutions with an examination of their current campus climate and facilitates a process to form a foundation for initiatives leading to institutional transformation. To date, Rankin Climate has collaborated with over 300 higher education institutions and athletic departments in implementing assessments and developing strategic plans.

Sue served for 17 years as the Head Coach for Women's Softball at Penn State. In 2025, she was inducted into the LGBTQ Sports Hall of Fame in recognition of her pioneering work as one of the first openly gay NCAA Division I coaches and as an advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in sports.

In her advocacy work, Dr. Rankin is a founding member of the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, a network of professionals doing advocacy work for LGBT people on college campuses. Dr. Rankin is the recipient of the ACPA 2008 Voice of Inclusion Medallion. The award recognizes individuals who embody the student affairs values of social justice. Dr. Rankin is was also awarded the 2018 James R. Douglass and Gerald B. Roemer from the U.S. Department of Justice for her work in the United States Transgender Project.

Dr. Rankin earned her B.S. from Montclair State University in 1978, a M.S. in Exercise Physiology from The Pennsylvania State University (1981), and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration in 1994, also from Penn State.

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