W. Earl Walker Biography

BIOGRAPHY

W. EARL WALKER, Ph.D

Dr. W. Earl Walker started as Dean of Business Administration and Robert A. Jolley Chair at the Citadel on August 1, 2001. He and the faculty have finalized a new mission and vision for the School of Business Administration, started a mentors program, a new Center for Leadership Development, partnerships with business and not-for-profit organizations in the Lowcountry, as well as other new initiatives that have helped The Citadel reach out into the community. Previously he served as Dean and Professor of the Helzberg School of Management at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri and Dean and Professor of Management in the School of Business at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. In these positions he led business schools that redesigned themselves to include new mission and vision statements and initiated such new initiatives as an Information Technology Leadership Program, MBAs in Health Care and Electronic Commerce Management, and a Center for Leadership.

Previously he was Director of Training at McLane Company in Temple, Texas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wal-Mart. In that position, he started the McLane Leadership School and established company-wide management training initiatives for this $6 billion dollar company. He was also Professor of Public Policy, Program Director, and Division Chair in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point for 18 years and line Army officer who commanded armor units in Vietnam, Germany, and in the United States. He retired in 1993 as an Army Colonel.

He was a 1967 Distinguished Graduate and Phi Kappa Phi from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has received a number of distinctive awards to include selection as a White House Fellow and a NATO Research Fellow. He was elected by former Fellows as President of the White House Fellows Association and Chairman of the Board of the White House Fellows Foundation. He has won research grants from the Ford Foundation, the Army Research Institute, the Supreme Commander of all NATO forces, the Comptroller General of the United States, the National Guard Bureau, and the National War College. Also, he is the author of three books and numerous articles on leadership, organizations, defense policy making, the presidency, and Congress.

As an Army officer, he was airborne and ranger qualified, and graduated with distinction from every level of military schooling through the National War College.He is certified as a master trainer by Zenger-Miller and is a graduate of the Wal-Mart Walton Institute. He has attended the Harvard Management Development Program and the Center for Creative Leadership's Leadership Development Program. Finally, he has actively served four Episcopal congregations since he joined the Church in 1982 as a senior warden, vestry member, lay duties coordinator, lay reader and chalice bearer.

Earl has been married to Susan Porter Walker for over 34 years, and they have two children, Allen and Kathryn. Susan has a Masters Degree in Library Science and has served as an archivist, medical librarian, and a children's librarian. Allen is a Regular Army Captain, airborne and ranger qualified, is assigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and is a graduate in computer science from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Kathryn recently graduated with an International Baccalaureate degree from Shawnee Mission East High School in Overland Park, Kansas and has just finished her freshman year at the College of William and Mary.

July 18, 2002