William Cale Named Dean And CEO At Penn State Altoona
March 17, 2000
Hershey, Pa. — William G. Cale, Jr., executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of biology at Lamar University, has been named dean and campus executive officer at Penn State Altoona, effective July 1, by Penn State’s Board of Trustees today (March 17).
"We are very pleased that Dr. Cale, a scholar with extensive administrative experience, will join the University to lead the Penn State Altoona College," said Rodney A. Erickson, executive vice president and provost. "Bill is also a Penn State graduate, and we are delighted to welcome him back in this key leadership role."
Cale has been executive vice president for academic affairs at Lamar University, which is part of the Texas State University System, since 1994. He is responsible for policy formulation and budget preparation for the university’s academic programs, including six academic colleges, graduate studies, research, the library, public services and continuing education as well as for institutional research and reporting, academic services and museum services. He also oversees the university’s long-range planning and serves as president of the university in the president’s absence.
Among his accomplishments as executive vice president, he has supervised the revision of the university core curriculum, initiated distance learning programs using two-way interactive classrooms and created the Southeast Texas Telecommunications Education Network with regional public schools. He also increased enrollments by restructuring and refocusing recruitment and marketing efforts, and created the Lamar Ambassadors Program, a student group serving the outreach needs of the university.
Dr. Cale’s research interests include ecological modeling theory, error and uncertainty analysis, the theory of ecosystem structure and function, and the economics of tropical forest preservation. He is author or co-author of more than 60 publications and presentations on these topics and has been the principal investigator on several research projects funded the National Science Foundation and other organizations.
From 1989 to 1994, Cale was dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he was responsible for seven departments and was engaged in long range planning and external development. Before that, he was associate dean and college master at the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas from 1983 to 1985 and again from 1987 to 1989. From 1985 to 1989 he also served as head of the Department of Environmental Sciences for UT-Dallas.
After his graduation from Penn State in 1969, he received his Ph.D. in Zoology with a specialization in Systems Ecology from the University of Georgia in 1975.
Dr. Cale has been active in the arts and his community as a member of the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce of Beaumont and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Energy Museum, among others. He will be joined in Altoona by his wife, Betty Jean.
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