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WILLIE F. TROTTY, PhD

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Houston, Texas 77088

Telephone: 281-***-**** (H)

936-***-**** (O)

Email: ********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Senior administrator/educator with more than 30 years of successful experience in

planning, resource development, project management and teaching in higher education.

EDUCATION

PhD 1977 Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana

Educational Administration & Supervision

Outside Cognate: Industrial Management

M.S. 1972 Stephen F. Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas

Biology and Secondary Education

B.S. 1970 Stephen F. Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas

Biology and Political Science

Certificate of Completion, The Governor s Executive Development Program (Class XIII),

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995

PRESENT RANK AND ASSIGNMENT

September 1998 to present Professor of Educational Administration and Vice

President for Research and Development.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN ACADEMIC AND RELATED POSITIONS

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY, PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS

September 1992 to 1998

Professor of Educational Administration, Dean of the Graduate

School and Director of Research and Sponsored Programs

September 1990 to September 1991

Associate Professor of Educational Administration and

Director of Research and Sponsored Programs

August 1988 to September 1990

Associate Professor Education, Associate Dean of the

College of Education and Head of Department of School

Services

September 1982 to August 1988

Associate Professor of Education and Director of Teacher

Certification

September 1977 to August 1982

Assistant Professor of Education and Assistant

Director of Teacher Certification

September 1977 to September 1979 (Concurrent with above)

Assistant Professor Education and Associate Director of the

Southern Consortium of Colleges for Teacher Education

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA

September 1976 to September 1977

Administrative Assistant

Continuing Education Administration, Division of Conferences

June 1976 to September 1976

Research Assistant

Department of School Administration and Supervision,

Project: West Central Indiana Regional Planning Board for

Vocational and Technical Education

September 1975 to June 1976

Teaching Assistant

Department of Education

January 1975 to September 1975

Research Assistant

Department of Horticulture

HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT

September 1970 to January 1975

Biology and Physical Science Teacher

Houston Independent School District

Robert E. Lee Senior High School

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SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES, BOARDS AND COUNCILS

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY, PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS

2008 to present Chair, Science and Engineering Alliance Steering

Committee

2006 to present Councilor, Texas A&M Research Foundation

2006 to 2007 Member, Aldine Independent School District Needs

Assessment Committee

2004 to present Board of Directors, Texas Society for Biomedical

Research, Chair of Education Committee

2002 to present Capital Campaign Steering Committee

2001 to 2006 Chair, State Employee Charitable Campaign

2000 to present University Co-Chair, The Prairie View A&M University

Industry Cluster

1992 to 2001 Executive Committee, Council of Historically Black Graduate

Schools, served as president and secretary-treasurer

1996 to 1999 Executive Committee, Association of Texas Graduate Schools,

served as vice president and president

1995 to 1997 Member, Windham School System Interagency

Advisory Committee

1995 to 2003 Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling

(formerly School Services) Tenure and Promotions Committee

1995 to present Member and former Co-Chair, Texas Leadership Inc.,

The Lower Colorado River Authority

1994 Co-Chair, Presidential Search Advisory Committee, Prairie

View A&M University

1993 to 2000 Chairman of the University Committee on Animal

Care and Use

1991 to 1998 Chairman of the Graduate Council

Chairman of the University Committee on Research

1990 1991 Member of the Executive Committee, The Texas

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Council of Faculty Governance Organizations (COFGO)

Served as Texas Higher Education Coordinating

Board/COFGO Intern

1989 to 1990 Chairman of the Steering Committee for the University

Self Study, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

1989 Participant in the Texas Academic Skills Program Standards

Setting Conference

1988 to 1990 Faculty Senate Chair

1987 to 1988 Faculty Senate Secretary

1986 to May 1991 Member of the Faculty Senate

1988 to 1995 Member of the Johnson-Phillip All Faiths Chapel Advisory

Board

January 1982 to Member of the College of Education Management Team

January 1983

1977 to 2001 Member of the Graduate Council

Prairie View A&M University Local Cooperative Teacher

Education Center Advisory Board

1980 to 1982 Member of Faculty Performance Review Committee

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA

1975 to 1977 Graduate Student Coordinator, The University Council for

Educational Administration (UCEA)

HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, HOUSTON, TEXAS

1970 to 1975 Member of the Faculty Advisory Council, Robert E. Lee Senior

High School, Houston, Texas

1973 to 1975 Member of the Houston Independent School District s

Consultation Committee

1974 to 1975 Chairman of the Houston Teacher s Association Consultation

Committee

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PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

2004 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Ain Shams University, Cairo

Egypt

2003 & 2004 Project Director, NASA- Prairie View A&M Pre-Service

Teacher Institute (PSTI), Funded by NASA-Langley

$103,000

2003 Commencement Speaker, Anderson-Shiro Consolidated

Independent School District

2002 Presenter, Community Radio Talk Show, Educational

Opportunities at Prairie View A&M University, Seattle,

Washington, March 2002

2002 Presenter, International Energy Week 2002 Conference,

University-Industry Collaborations, An Industry Cluster Model,

February 2002, Houston, TX

2001-2004 Author and PI, SEA Center of Excellence for the Preparation of

Science, Mathematics, and Technology Application Teachers

($80,000), funded by Jackson State University as flow-through

from the Department of Education

2001-2003 Author and PI, ISO 9000-2000 Training for Selected Small

Disadvantaged Businesses ($253,757) funded by SAIC as a

part of the DoD Mentor-Prot g Program

2000 Presenter, The Defense Information System Agency Mentor-

Prot g Program, Prairie View A&M University Short-Courses

and Training Capabilities, March 23, 2000

Presenter, The Minority Research Community: Obligations,

Commitments, and Opportunities, The Research Association of

Minority Professors (RAMP), February 2000

1999 - 2004 Author and Co-PI, Minority Institutions Technology Support

Services IQ/ID Contract (Received over $2.7 million in

contracts and mentor-prot g activities from the Defense

Information System Agency (DISA) of the Department of

Defense and SAIC)

Author and Co-PI, Power Quality and Reliability ($100,000)

funded by NASA-JSC

Presenter, Continuing the Legacy, The Dr. Martin Luther King,

Jr. Day Celebration, Tomball Community College, January

1999

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1998 The Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education

25th Annual Conference, Recruitment and Retention of

Minorities in Graduate Programs, April 3, 1998

Author and Co-PI, Rehabilitation Capacity Building Grant,

$50,000 funded by the U.S. Department of Education

1997 Presenter, International Energy Week 97 Conference,

Sustaining Partnerships with the Energy Industry, George R.

Brown Convention Center, February 1997

Author and Co-PI, Rehabilitation Capacity Building Grant,

$50,000 funded by U. S. Department of Education.

1996 Presenter, The Association of Texas Graduate Schools 1996

Conference, Cooperative Graduate Education: Universities and

Corporate Partnerships for the Future, October 1996

Presenter, International Energy Week 96 Conference, Building

Partnerships with the Energy Industry, George R. Brown

Convention Center, February 1996

1994 The Prairie View A&M University Summer Workshop for

Science Teachers, Issues in Science Education, 1994

Presenter, Administering Research and Sponsored Program

Sub-agreements, Southern University Training Conference for

Historically Black Graduate Colleges and Universities

North Forest School District Workshop for School

Administrators, Models for Shared Decision Making, 1994

1993 Co-Author, A Proposal: Greater Houston Wastewater

Management Project, Funded by Platinum Management

Corporation, $10,000

Author and PI, A Proposal: M.S. PhD Bridge Program, Funded

by the National Institutes of Health through the University of

Texas Health Science Center-Houston, $75,000.

Presenter, Ninth Annual Minority Recruitment and Retention

Conference, April 21-22, 1993, Austin, Texas.1993, The

University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston and Prairie

View A&M University Collaborative.

1992 Co-author with Drs. John Williams and Robert Shepard,

Proposal Infrastructure Development of the Science and

Engineering Alliance, Funded by the Department of Energy,

$250,000

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Co-Author with Drs. John Williams and Hylton McWhinney, A

Proposal: Summer Science Teacher Enhancement Project,

Funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary

Education through Jackson State University, $50,000

Presenter, E. J. Campbell Alumni Association Key Achiever

Awards, The Nature of Achievement, June 1992

1991 Author, Proposal for Research Capabilities Presentation to

McDonnell Douglas (McAir) Corporation, $10,000

1990 With Dr. William Parker, organized and conducted in-service

workshop on Understanding Organizations and Teacher

Empowerment for Administrators and Teachers in the

Smithville Independent School District

Conducted workshop on Administrative Accountability for the

Houston Association of Black School Educators (HABSE)

Member of Project 2000 Ad Hoc Advisory Committee for the

Aldine ISD. Chaired the sub-committee on curriculum

1988 Chairman, Conference Audit Committee, The Annual Texas

Conference on Teacher Education

Conducted Curriculum Development Workshops for the faculty

of the Benjamin Banneker Honors College

Conducted Leadership Development Workshop for members of

the Johnson-Phillip All Faiths Chapel Advisory Board

1987 Conducted in-service workshop on Teacher Education and

Certification Issues in Texas for the Hempstead Independent

School District, Hempstead, TX

1986 Served as Resource Person for the 35th through 38th Annual

Texas Conferences on Teacher Education

1986 Co-author with Drs. Louis Aikens, William Parker, and Ernest

Brooks, the proposal to receive Block Grant monies for

Teacher Center Projects, $50,000

1985 Co-author with Drs. M. Paul Mehta and William Parker, a

proposal presented to the Texas Higher Education

Coordinating Board, Enhancing the Mathematics Skills of

Elementary Teachers in Districts Comprising the Prairie View

A&M University Cooperative Teacher Education Center (Funded

$40,000)

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Coordinated with Dr. William Parker, review sessions for

public school teachers preparing to take the Texas

Examination of Current Administrators and Teachers in Texas

(TeCAT)

Author and Co-edited with Dr. Louis Aikens, Theory Into

Practice: A Casebook for Students of School Administration,

Ginn Press, Mass., 1986

1984 Conducted university follow-up studies of College of Education

graduates

1984 Chairman, NCATE Steering Committee for the College of

Education Accreditation Visit

Conducted, with Dr. Ernest Brooks, in-service workshop on

student expectations for the Waller Independent School

District, Waller, TX

1983 Co-author Activity Three of the Title III Proposal (Funded)

Co-author Teacher Center Block Grant Proposal (Funded)

1981 Conducted workshop on Teaching and Testing for Maximum

Competency Attainment, The Wilmer-Hutchins Independent

School District, Dallas, TX

Panel Member, Texas Education Agency Workshop for School

District Personnel Officers, Region IV Service Center, Houston,

TX

1980 Presenter, Defining Problems in Humanities and Social Science

Research, Consortium of Research in the Humanities and

Social Sciences, Prairie View, TX

Presenter, Grievance Procedures for Educators in a Collective

Bargaining Environment, Texas Southern University

Conducted Workshop, Teaching for Transfer of Learning,

Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District, Dallas, TX

1979 Presenter, Proposed Changes in Certification Requirements for

Texas Teachers, Waller County Education Association

1978 Participant, NCATE Team Leader Training Sessions, New

Orleans, LA

Newsletter Editor, The Consortium of Southern Colleges for

Teacher Education

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Participant, Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Training for

Project Documenters and Evaluators, San Francisco, CA

Presenter, Administrative Credibility, the 110th Annual

Convention of the American Association of School

Administrators, Atlanta, GA

1977 Published, with Nixon, E., Bates, E., and Wilkinson, D.,

Analysis of Stump Vegetation in an East Texas Pond, Texas

Journal of Science, 1977

Participant, The Washington Policy Seminar, The Institute for

Educational Policy Making, Washington, DC

Dissertation, Perceptions of the Credibility of School Officials as

Related to the Collective Bargaining Posture of School

Corporations

1976 Co-investigator, Adams Central Community School Corporation

Student Follow-up Study, Adams County, IN

POLICY AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Revised Teacher Education Programs to meet Texas Education Requirements

The Prairie View A&M University Research Enhancement Program

The Prairie View A&M University Conflict of Interest Rule

The Prairie View A&M University Office of Research

The Prairie View A&M University Continuing Education Policy

The Prairie View A&M University Rule on Research Integrity

The Prairie View A&M University Procedures on the Use of Human Subjects in

Research

The Prairie View A&M University Strategic Plan for Research

Developed and Documented the Prairie View A&M University Graduate School

Admissions Process

The Prairie View A&M University 2002-2008 Capital Campaign (Raised over

$30,000,000)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND PARTICIPATION (Past and Present)

Individual

The Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development

The American Association of School Administrators

Houston Association of Black School Educators

Texas Professors of Educational Administration

Texas Association of College Teachers

The National Education Association

Phi Delta Kappa

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University Representative

The Science and Engineering Alliance

The Leadership Alliance

The Association of Texas Graduate Schools

The Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools

Texas A&M University System

Texas A&M Research Foundation

Texas Leadership Institute, Inc.

The Texas A&M University System Federal Initiatives Committee

The Texas A&M University Azimuth 4 Committee (Research and Scholarship)

SELECTED HONORS AND RECOGNITIONS

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund Development Officer Award, 2006

Purdue University College of Education and Purdue Education Alumni Association

Distinguished Alumni Award, 2001

Distinguished Service Award, The Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools, 1999

Service Award, The Texas Leadership Institute, Inc., 1998, 1999.2000, 2001, 2002

Who s Who in the Southwest (1995-96)

Prairie View A&M University Outstanding Leadership Award, 1993

E. J. Campbell High School Alumni Association-Houston Chapter Key Achiever Award,

1992

Selected as Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Fellow, 1989

Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 1989

Johnson-Phillip All Faiths Chapel Leadership Award, 1988

College of Education Nominee, The Minnie Stevens Piper Teaching Award, 1987

Outstanding Young Men of America, 1978

Charter Member, The Prairie View Chapter of Kiwanis International

Charter Member, The Purdue University Educational Administration Alumni Association

Houston Teachers Association Distinguished Service Award, 1974

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CERTIFICATIONS AND SPECIALTY TRAINING

Professional (Life) Services Teacher Certificate, School Administrator (Principal and

Superintendent)

Professional Teacher (Life), Biology

Provisional (Life), Biology and Government

Program Evaluation Training

Project Management Training

Health and Human Services Grants and Contract Training

Department of Defense Grants and Contracts Training

NASA Grants and Contracts Training

Pedersen and McGrath Media Training

Fund Raising-Planned Giving

ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS AND SUPPORT GROUPS

Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Board of Deacons

Parents Committee Boy Scouts of America Troop 242

Boy Scouts Merit Badge Counselor (Communications and Scholarship)

The Houston Museum of Fine Arts

The Houston Museum of Natural Sciences

The Community Artist Collective

Rutherford BH Yates Museum, Inc

The Stephen F. Austin State University Alumni Association

The Purdue Education Alumni Association

The E. J. Campbell High School Alumni and Friends Association

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