Trauth, Denise M.

Dates

• Existence: 1947 May 20 -
• Existence: 1947-05-20    

Biography

Born in Cincinnati on 1947 May 20, Denise Trauth earned her bachelor’s degree from the College of Mount St. Joseph, before receiving her master’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University and her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Iowa. There she met her husband, John Huffman, and married in 1973. They have two daughters.

She served in faculty and administrative positions at the University of Tulsa and Bowling Green State University. In 1993, Trauth went to University of North Carolina at Charlotte as dean of the graduate school and associate vice chancellor for graduate programs, before becoming provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs in 1997.

Trauth was named president of Texas State in 2002 June 11, after a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents. As the university’s ninth president, the university changed its name to Texas State University-San Marcos (2003), opened a permanent campus in Round Rock (2005), began electrical engineering, nursing and six additional doctoral programs, dramatically increased the number of full-time faculty, quadrupled research expenditures and received its first Texas Emerging Technology Fund grant to enable establishing a commercialization center. Trauth began the university’s second capital campaign and cultivated several multimillion-dollar gifts, including the largest ever, $20 million from Emmett and Miriam McCoy.

During her tenure, enrollment grew from 23,517 to 32,586, a transformational Campus Master Plan guided the addition of major new facilities and the “greening” of campus, and an athletics strategic plan moved that department to the next level. The University was designated a Texas Emerging Research University; has been reclassified as an “R2: Doctoral University – Higher Research Activity” under the Carnegie Classification system; became a federal Hispanic-Serving Institution; moved to the FBS subdivision of NCAA Division I. In October 2020, the Universities Libraries accepted an invitation to join the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

Trauth connected the University to the I-35 Austin-San Antonio Corridor and is active both in civic projects in Central Texas and in higher education organizations on the state and national levels. She was reviewed a number of awards including the Ohtli Award from the government of Mexico, the Austin Business Journal’s Special Achievement Award in 2011, the Girl Scouts’ Women of Distinction Award, the “Respect” Award for the First Tee Greater Austin 9 Core Values Awards, and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce State of Education Austin Human Capital Award.

See also: https://www.president.txstate.edu/about-president-trauth/biography/personal-background.html https://www.president.txstate.edu/about-president-trauth/biography.html

Found in 1 Collection or Record: