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Denise M. Trauth - Biography |
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President of Texas State University
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Denise M. Trauth began her tenure as President of Texas State University in August, 2002. She came to San Marcos after nine years at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she had served as Provost since April, 1997. Dr. Trauth is very active both in civic projects in central Texas and in higher education organizations on the state and national levels.
She is immediate past president of the Austin Area Research Organization (better known as AARO). She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Austin Lyric Opera and a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation and also serves on the Board of the Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation.
Dr. Trauth is a Commissioner of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
She is a member of the executive committee of the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities and the Chairman of the Texas Council of Public University Presidents and Chancellors.
Dr. Trauth earned her Bachelor of Arts at the College of Mount St. Joseph (Ohio), her Master of Arts at Ohio State University and her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. She is married to Dr. John Huffman, professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University and UNC Charlotte.
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