COASTAL CAROLINA
TRACK & FIELD
President David A. DeCenzo
Coastal Carolina University Executive Officers
David A. DeCenzo became the second president of Coastal Carolina University on May 7, 2007. DeCenzo joined Coastal Carolina’s administration in 2002 when he was named dean of the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration. He was named provost and senior vice president of academic affairs n in May 2006. Before joining the Coastal Carolina University faculty, DeCenzo served as director of partnership development in the College of Business and Economics at Towson University in Maryland from 1999 to 2002. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland College Park and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from West Virginia University. An experienced industry consultant, DeCenzo has served a wide variety of clients including Citicorp Global Technology, Moen Inc., Motorola and others. His major academic interests are in human resource management, management, and organizational behavior. He is the author of textbooks that are used widely at colleges and universities throughout the United States and the world. He serves on the board of directors of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Center, and he served a two-year term on the Conway Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors. As dean of Coastal Carolina’s Wall College, DeCenzo led the move to establish a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. He also helped create the Wall Center of Excellence, designed to enhance and reinforce business students’ skills through experiential learning. As provost, he instituted Centers for Excellence to support student internships, research and travel in each of the university’s four colleges. DeCenzo and his wife, Terri, have four children.
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATORS
Edgar Dyer Executive Vice President/ University Counsel
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Will Garland Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration
Robert Sheehan Senior Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs
President David DeCenzo (far right) accepts the Sasser Cup and Women’s All-Sports Trophy for Coastal Carolina for the 2006-07 year along with (left to right) Coastal Carolina Athletic Director Warren Koegel, former Associate AD/Senior Woman Administrator Gina Markland, former NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative Linda Vereen.
Coastal Carolina University Mission Statement
Original approved by the Coastal Carolina University Board of Trustees on April 18, 1997 Update adopted by the Coastal Carolina University Board of Trustees on December 14, 2007 Coastal Carolina University is a public comprehensive liberal arts institution that seeks to develop students who are both knowledgeable in their chosen fields and prepared to be productive, responsible, healthy citizens with a global perspective. To deliver on this commitment, Coastal Carolina recruits highly qualified and motivated students, faculty and staff from the region, state, nation and world to create a diverse and dynamic student-centered learning environment. Because Coastal Carolina embraces the teacher-scholar model, it places primary emphasis on high quality teaching and engaged learning, and it supports faculty research, creative activities, and expert collaboration in the community, state, nation, and world. This focus enables faculty and staff to mentor students in collaborative research, creative opportunities, and internships. To nurture this active learning community, Coastal Carolina maintains a broad range of contemporary technologies, programming, support services, and innovative course offerings and delivery methods. The result is alumni who are well prepared for professional careers or graduate programs in their chosen fields and who continue to be connected to Coastal Carolina. Inspired by its founding in 1954 to serve the educational needs of the immediate area, Coastal Carolina has grown with the region to become a mid-sized regional comprehensive university with a tradition of a strong liberal arts core. As such, Coastal Carolina commits its resources to maintaining a population of 8,000 – 12,000 students by building baccalaureate and selective master’s programs of national and/or regional significance in the arts and sciences, business, humanities, education, and health and human services. Coastal Carolina fully embraces its leadership role as a regional center of economic and intellectual resources, lifelong learning, cultural and recreational opportunities, and athletic programs. As Coastal Carolina executes this mission, it recognizes its responsibility to be a role model to the community and to the professions by assuring fair and honest treatment of people with whom it interacts and sustainable stewardship of resources entrusted to it, adopting the highest standards of integrity and accountability, and committing itself to excellence through continuous self-improvement.
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