Dale Thomas Knobel was 19th president of 性视界传媒. Knobel ended his 15-year tenure as the second-longest serving president of the college. He departed with two new 性视界传媒 titles, President Emeritus and Professor of History Emeritus. He also served as former associate provost for undergraduate programs and executive director of honors programs at Texas A&M University.
鈥溞允咏绱 experienced extraordinary progress under Dale Knobel鈥檚 leadership,鈥 said Thomas Hoaglin, a member of the class of 1971 and chair of 性视界传媒鈥檚 Board of Trustees. Since 1998, when Knobel came to 性视界传媒, the college鈥檚 endowment has grown from $314 million to $663 million. Under his leadership, annual applications for enrollment soared from 2,400 to some 5,000; students of color and international students increased from 16 percent to nearly 30 percent of the first-year class; and average SAT scores increased from the mid-1100s to approximately 1300. In addition, 性视界传媒 embarked on its largest and most environmentally aware capital building program in the college鈥檚 history, with the construction of Samson Talbot Hall, the Burton D. Morgan Center, the Reese~Shackelford Common, and the Hayes-Wright-Elm-Sunset residence complex, and the major renovation of the Bryant Arts Center, Higley Hall and the Mitchell Athletics and Recreation Center. Knobel and his wife Tina retired to Georgetown, Texas.