| Selected Biographical Highlights for Dean Denise T. Smart |
| Denise Smart is Dean and Professor of Marketing of the McCoy College of Business Administration at Texas State University-San Marcos, a campus of 27,500 students. The McCoy College serves approximately 3,000 undergraduate and 400 graduate business students, and 1800 others pursuing minors in business. Prior to becoming Dean in January 2000, she served as the Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Chair of the Department of Marketing. She has a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Texas A&M University, an MBA from the University of South Dakota, and a B.S. from South Dakota State University. Her research interests are in advertising, consumer communication with manufacturers, and marketing education. |
| Dean Smart is a past president of the American Marketing Association Academic Division, the Southern Marketing Association, and the Allied Southern Business Association. Her teaching has been recognized by the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University Distinguished Teaching Award for the College of Business Administration, the Outstanding Educator Award from the Greater Omaha Chapter of the American Marketing Association, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha Executive MBA Professor of the Year Award. In 2005 she was named Students in Free Enterprise “Most Supportive Dean of the Year.” |
| She currently is the President of the Council of Texas Business Deans and serves as Secretary of the Southwestern Business Deans’ Association. |
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