46 Facts About Geoffrey Gamble

Geoffrey Gamble was born on 1942 and is an American linguist who served from 2000 to 2009 as the 11th president of Montana State University.

Geoffrey Gamble's father was a cotton farmer with a seventh grade education who was dismissive of educational achievement.

Geoffrey Gamble's mother was a high school dropout.

The Geoffrey Gamble family was somewhat poor, and both boys and girls in the family were taught to cook, sew, and repair automobiles in order to be self-sufficient.

Geoffrey Gamble graduated from Fresno High School and attended Fresno State College, where he played football for a year.

Geoffrey Gamble quit playing after receiving such poor grades that he was nearly forced to leave school.

Geoffrey Gamble graduated with a bachelor's degree in English language and literature in 1965.

Geoffrey Gamble was the first and only person in his family to earn a college degree.

Geoffrey Gamble was in his early 30s when he started teaching a night class to aspiring insurance agents, and realized that he really wanted to teach.

Geoffrey Gamble enrolled again at Fresno State, and began to pursue a degree in law.

Geoffrey Gamble continued with his education and obtained a Ph.

Geoffrey Gamble then obtained a full-time teaching position in 1976 at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

Geoffrey Gamble taught in the anthropology department for the next 12 years.

Geoffrey Gamble was appointed interim vice provost for academic affairs at WSU in 1987.

Geoffrey Gamble was appointed to the job permanently in 1988, where he oversaw budgetary and personnel matters, planning, and implementation.

Geoffrey Gamble left WSU in 1998 to accept a position as provost and senior vice president at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.

Geoffrey Gamble's pay at the time was about $163,000 a year.

Geoffrey Gamble says that he was not sought out for the job.

Geoffrey Gamble was named the 11th president of Montana State University on October 5,2000.

Geoffrey Gamble's starting salary was $133,000 a year, and he assumed his position as president on December 1,2000.

Geoffrey Gamble's presidency was marked by openness and a consultative style of governance.

Geoffrey Gamble made it a goal to interact with faculty, staff, workers, and students as much as possible, and maintained an "open door" policy that permitted almost anyone to make an appointment to see him.

Geoffrey Gamble doubled the size of the president's executive council to make it more representative.

Geoffrey Gamble established a new 25-member University Planning, Budget and Analysis Committee to establish the university budget, and made its deliberations and decisions accessible to the media.

Geoffrey Gamble laid down one budgetary rule, however: The university would not initiate projects without having the money in-hand to complete them.

Geoffrey Gamble sought to turn Montana State University into a research university.

Geoffrey Gamble encouraged faculty to conduct research and to apply for federal research grants, and the school actively sought out federal research money to renovate campus buildings.

The university applied for a trademark on the name, and Geoffrey Gamble worked to establish and enlarge the Big Sky Institute in Big Sky, Montana.

Geoffrey Gamble made enhancement of diversity a major effort of his presidency.

Geoffrey Gamble sought out women for leadership training activities, and encouraged their promotion within the university hierarchy.

Geoffrey Gamble sought to integrate tribal colleges into MSU's teaching and governance structure as well.

Geoffrey Gamble appointed Dr Henrietta Mann as a special assistant to the president's office.

Geoffrey Gamble made Dr Mann his personal representative to the seven tribal colleges which participate in the Montana University System.

Geoffrey Gamble created a Council of Elders to bring leaders of the tribal colleges together twice a year at MSU to discuss governance, academics, funding, and integration issues.

Legislatively, Geoffrey Gamble adopted an approach whereby university officials promoted MSU's accomplishments, praised legislators for their financial support, and spoke of state funding for the university in terms of investment that led to economic and job growth.

Geoffrey Gamble quickly fired Kramer, who then sued MSU for unlawful dismissal.

In 2009, Geoffrey Gamble said his hardest time as president was dealing with the sports scandal.

Faculty members Ed Mooney and Gary Harkin argue that Geoffrey Gamble's focus on research led to increased costs for undergraduates and less focus on high-quality undergraduate teaching.

An internal university "report card", created by Geoffrey Gamble, showed that faculty and administrative fell under Geoffrey Gamble fell to just 78 and 73 percent, respectively, of the national average for like-sized universities.

When he retired, Geoffrey Gamble admitted that he failed to achieve some goals.

Geoff Geoffrey Gamble was 58 years old when he was appointed president of Montana State University.

Geoffrey Gamble stayed on as an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, teaching one or two courses a semester.

Geoffrey Gamble was appointed interim senior provost at the University of North Texas in August 2011.

UNT president V Lane Rawlins asked Gamble to take the job for a year as UNT searched for an individual to permanently take the position.

On May 15,2012, Geoffrey Gamble was appointed UNT's vice president for research and economic development at UNT.

McCoy took over at UNT's vice president for research and economic development, and Geoffrey Gamble took on a new position, vice president for strategy and operations.