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Chula King, Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs Phone: (850) 474.2035 Fax: (850) 474.3131 E-mail: cking@uwf.edu |
Chula King is provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at the University of West Florida. Dr. King received her undergraduate degree and M.B.A. from the UWF and her Ph.D. in Accounting (with emphasis on taxation) from the Louisiana State University. Dr. King has been on the faculty at UWF since 1982 and has served as chairman of the Accounting and Finance Department since 2002. She is also a Certified Public Account in the State of Florida.
Some of Dr. King’s awards and honors include the Program for Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Technology Award, Small Grant Award, College of Business Best of Strictly Business Award, Dyson Faculty Award for Excellence in Service, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Advising Award, and Distinguished Teaching award.
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Harold M. White, Jr., Executive Vice President Phone: (850) 474.2200 Fax: (850) 474.3131 E-mail: hwhite@uwf.edu |
Dr. Hal White joined the University of West Florida in fall 2002, and serves both as executive vice president and also as university professor of Ethics, Law and Policy.
Born in Richmond, Va., the son of a school teacher and a clergyman, White grew up in several Virginia and North Carolina towns where his father served churches. White received his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University. He went on to earn his doctorate in law from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, and holds a Certificate in Higher Education Administration from the Institute for Higher Education Administration at Harvard University.
White began his career as a law professor at Western State University College of Law in suburban Los Angeles, Calif., where he pioneered courses in space law and consumer law, won a teaching award and was a member of an advisory committee to Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. of California on science and technology policy. While there, he also served as assistant to the dean for Governmental Affairs and Student Affairs, and became one of the youngest full professors of law in the United States.
Immediately prior to joining UWF, White served as assistant to the chancellor and university (general) counsel at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW). As a faculty member there, he won four teaching awards, and taught courses in law, ethics and policy, with a special focus on aerospace, cyberspace, media and telecommunication, in addition to the philosophy of law. He also served as a member of the Computer and Internet Legal Issues Committee for the University of North Carolina System and helped negotiate, raise funds for and direct the "Global Virtual University" initiative for UNC with four Japanese universities.
Previously, White served a special appointment as chief of international law and senior assistant attorney general for the newly formed country and former U.S. Trust Territory of the Federated States of Micronesia, where he briefly served as acting attorney general and culminated his service as a delegate to the United Nations. He helped Micronesia to join the United Nations, select its first indigenous attorney general, establish a new communications department and join international agencies such as the International Telecommunications Union, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium.
White is also a former special deputy attorney general of North Carolina and a former visiting professor of Law, Ethics and Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he pioneered two new courses. Having authored two books and written numerous articles on the law and policy relating to activities in space, including the international regulation of telecommunication satellites, White has advised numerous aerospace trade and professional associations. He was instrumental in the formation of the National Coordinating Committee for Space, a consortium of trade and professional space-related organizations.
White also served as project counsel and associate researcher at the Smithsonian Institution where he assisted in conducting a special space law project and conference series for the nation's capital in commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States. He also produced and directed the first national symposium on the impact of outer space activities on law and public policy. White's research and teaching specialties in media, telecommunication, space and cyberspace have always had an interdisciplinary orientation, with a special focus on social adjustments to rapidly changing technologies and new environments and their impact on the philosophy and development of law.
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Deborah Lynn Ford, Vice President for Student Affairs Phone: (850) 474.2214 Fax: (850) 474.3131 E-mail: dford@uwf.edu |
Dr. Deborah Lynn Ford joined the University of West Florida as vice president for Student Affairs and associate professor in February 2003.
Dr. Ford completed her bachelor of arts degree at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and received her master of education degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The University of Louisville awarded her doctor of education in 1996. She is also a graduate of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Dr. Ford previously served as vice president for Student Affairs and dean of students at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.
The author of numerous publications and presentations, Dr. Ford is the recipient of the John M. Houchens Prize for dissertation of the year from the University of Louisville for her presentation on “Judicial Responses to Adverse Academic Decisions Affecting Postsecondary Students Since Horowitz and Ewing.” In 2002 she received the College Personnel Association of Kentucky Outstanding Service Award.
Professional associations include the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the American College Personnel Association. She was selected to the 1997 edition of Outstanding Young Women in America.
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Dean Van Galen, Vice President for University Advancement Phone: (850) 474.2758 Fax: (850) 474.2714 E-mail: dvangalen@uwf.edu |
Dr. Dean Van Galen is vice president for University Advancement at the University of West Florida, providing leadership for the Division of University Advancement, which includes alumni relations, development, marketing communications and the UWF Foundation. Prior to joining UWF in 2003, he was vice president for University Advancement at Truman State University in Missouri. Now in his fifth year at UWF, the university has just launched the public phase of the Creating Great Futures Campaign – the largest fundraising effort in the history of the university.
Dr. Van Galen began his academic career in 1987 at Truman State University where he was granted tenure and achieved the rank of professor of Chemistry. He has developed and taught courses in chemistry and environmental science, including a study abroad course in Norway. He has published and presented extensively in the areas of analytical chemistry and environmental science. Dr. Van Galen was named Educator of the Year at Truman State University in 1988-1989 and Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Professor of the Year for the state of Missouri in 1991. In 1994-1995 he was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. He is also a graduate of the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) program of Harvard University.
Dr. Van Galen currently serves on the board of directors of United Way of Escambia County and is vice chair of Hands on Northwest Florida Volunteers. He is a co-chair of the Council of Fellows Finance and Annual Fund Committee and a member of Five Flags Rotary Club.
Dr. Van Galen earned a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin —Whitewater. After receiving his doctorate in analytical chemistry from Kansas State University, he was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of California, Berkeley.
