Millennium Magazine_6th Ed

103 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine TIMOTHY D. MEAD, PHD PROFESSOR EMERITUS University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC George Washington University. Dr.Meadcommencedhis career as a researcher for the Institute for Defense Analysis in 1962 and then served as a teaching fellow turned instructor at George Washington University until 1965. For eight subsequent years, Dr. Mead was an assistant and associate professor of political science at Moravian College. Until 1980, he worked at Applied Communications as an associate, the Domestic Council Committee on Right of Privacy as associate executive director, and the Academy for Contemporary Problems as a public administration fellow. In 1986, Dr. Mead served as the president of faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is now recognized as a professor emeritus. A consultant and a coordinator of Mead Associates from 1979 to 1995, Dr. Mead taught at University of North Carolina-Charlotte as an associate professor and professor of political science, and was a coordinator of the MPA Program. Dr. Mead is the president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, and a former member of the American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration and Southeastern Outdoor Press Association. He is also a board member of the Catawba-Wateree Relicensing Coalition and on the Catawba-Wateree Basin Commission. Alongside his primary feats in education and administration, Dr. Mead is the author of “Measuring the Management Capacity of Local Government” and “Impact of Federal Paperwork on State & Local Government: An Assessment.” He credits his success and inspiration to his two mentors: Wolfgang Kraus, a professor of political science, and Hugh LeBlanc, his doctoral dissertation advisor. Throughout his career, wherever he has lived, Dr. Mead is proud to have made his community a better place. F rom his high school involvement in Boys State, a program for boys which teaches them about government, Dr. Timothy D. Mead took an oath to get involved in government and he did so as a teacher of political science. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1960, a Master of Arts in 1961 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1969, all from EDUCATION