June 5, 2006

Ingram named vice chancellor of TROY's University College

TROY – Dr. Earl Ingram has been tapped to lead Troy University’s University College, the university’s arm that operates more than 60 sites outside Alabama.

Dr. Ed Roach, the University’s provost, said that Ingram’s international and business experience will help him span both academic and business leadership roles needed of the vice chancellor’s office.

“Dr. Ingram’s past leadership in University College, coupled with his deanship of the Sorrell College of Business, gives him a unique combination of experience and ability to provide outstanding leadership for University College,” he said.

University College is arm of the University that oversees the University’s operations of all its campuses outside Alabama in 15 U.S. states and 13 foreign locations, the eCampus and is the second-largest provider of education through the Department of Defense’s eArmyU program. The University College program is unique as it stands alone financially and does not utilize tax payer’s dollars from the State of Alabama.

Ingram, dean of the Sorrell College of Business since 2004, is a professor of management. He joined the TROY faculty in 1987, and in 1991, was assigned director for TSU-Europe, overseeing the delivery of graduate programs to as many as 25 teaching sites with 800 students in seven countries. Ingram said that experience “crystallized” his interest in international management.

“Dr. Ingram has a record of success during his tenure with the Sorrell College of Business,” said Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr. “I have full confidence that he will take University College to the next level in this highly competitive field of higher education.”

Ingram will replace Dr. Susan Aldridge, who left earlier in the year to become president of the University of Maryland University College.

“Our international presence and eCampus differentiate TROY from any other university our size,” Ingram said. “Through world-class faculty and staff, we’ll fulfill TROY’s brand promise that a student can start anywhere and finish anywhere – University College is the means that makes it possible for our students to achieve throughout the United States and around the world.”

Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Ingram was reared in a military family, living in several states, Japan and German. After attending the University of New Mexico, he enlisted in the United States Army, serving six years of active duty that included a tour of duty as a pilot and officer in an attack helicopter battalion in Vietnam. After leaving active duty, he completed a bachelor of science degree in management, a master of science in psychology and a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology, all at Auburn University.

He was employed by West Point Pepperell, then a Fortune-200 company, for 12 years, six of which included the post of director for human resources planning, research and development.

From 1972 until 1991, Dr. Ingram served in the Alabama National Guard, serving in aviation units and commanding a transportation battalion, retiring at the rank of colonel from the U.S. Army Reserve.

“I look forward to the opportunities that lay ahead,” Ingram said.

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