Rawls Area of Management
Dr. Ralph E. Ferguson
Associate Academic Dean
ralph.ferguson@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 742-2787
Fax: (806) 742-2308
Personal Information :
Dr. Ralph Ferguson is the Associate Academic Dean and supervises the enrollment management division in the Graduate School at Texas Tech University. He manages the academic affairs of over 4000 domestic and international students. Dean Ferguson is an effective advocate for programs that enrich the quality of undergraduate and graduate experience. Dean Ferguson speaks to groups about the impact of the rising cost of education, personal financial planning, debt, emerging markets, and disfranchisement.
A management generalist and futurist with more than twenty years of experience in the public and private sector, he consults with businesses and public officials about global human capital issues. Dr. Ferguson was a principal owner in DancingFibers, a limited liability corporation, which distributed imported knitting yarns from around the world to more than 300 retail stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. As leader in a global business, Dr. Ferguson brings influence and a network of public and private sector managers to design effective strategies to shape affirmative outcomes. His publications emphasize complex issues related to debt, wealth building, and management to encourage the inclusion of the disenfranchised.
Dr. Ferguson has traveled around the world to visit developed and less developed nations. Dr. Ferguson brings wealth of knowledge to his work and research from careers as a succesful entrepreneur, corporate executive, Court Administrator, Magistrate and Municipal Court Judge. Dr. Ferguson holds a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a doctorate from Texas Tech University in Personal Financial Planning (CEED).
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