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William T. Slater
Since 2002
Professor of Journalism
Dean of College of Communication
B.A.-Tufts University
M.A.-Stanford University
Ph.D.-Stanford University
266 Moudy South
817.257.5918
w.slater@tcu.edu
William T. Slater is Professor and Dean of the College of Communication
at Texas Christian University. Prior to his assignment at TCU, Slater served
as dean of the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of
Nevada, Reno and as dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at
West Virginia University.
Before going to West Virginia, Slater was vice president for institutional
advancement at Western Illinois University. He has held a similar position
at Oregon State University.
Slater began his academic career as an assistant professor of communications
at the University of Washington in Seattle. He then moved on to a visiting
appointment at the University of Southern California for one year, and was
subsequently appointed to chair the Department of Radio-Television at the
University of Arizona. Slater has also served as dean of the College of Fine
Arts at Eastern Washington University.
Before embarking upon an academic career, Slater worked for a number of
years as a newspaper and broadcast journalist in Boston, Baltimore, Washington,
New York, Cleveland and San Francisco. He was a radio and television news
anchor for WBZ-TV-AM in Boston, and covered the White House for Westinghouse
Broadcasting Co. Slater also served as a vice president for Boston Broadcasters
Inc. (WCVB-TV) and was press aide to the Governor of Massachusetts.
Slater is a former president of the Association of Schools of Journalism
and Mass Communication, an organization of journalism and mass communication
school administrators.
He is co-author of two books, has been principal investigator on several
communications projects in the U.S. and Canada, and has written and produced
several award-winning documentaries, one of which was awarded a regional Emmy.
Slater earned his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in Medford,
MA. He completed his masters and Ph.D. at Stanford University.
He is married to Elizabeth Doane. They have three sons.
02/03/06