Dr. Gary Brockway, Murray State University vice president for academic
affairs and provost, will retire June 30 after 34 years with the
university. A reception will be held in his honor Thursday, April 29,
from 3-5 p.m. in the Pogue Library on campus. Campus and community
members are invited to attend.
Brockway came to
Murray State in 1976 as an associate professor in management and
marketing. Prior to coming to Murray, he was assistant professor in the
department of business administration at Morehead State University.
He received his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Rochester Institute
of Technology (N. Y.), and his master of business administration and his
doctorate in business administration, both with an emphasis in
marketing, from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
He served as a visiting professor in Troy State University’s European
Program, teaching in Italy, Germany, Spain and Turkey.
From 1984 to 2003 he was the faculty coordinator and seminar leader of
the International Business Seminar. During that time more than 600
students from 15 universities received firsthand experience with
international business practices.
In 1994 he became chairman of the department of management and
marketing. He was co-author of the
$3 million grant for the Program of Distinction in Telecommunications
Systems Management and co-author of a $75,000 BellSouth grant for
multimedia equipment.
Brockway was selected to be the interim vice president for academic
affairs and provost in 1998. Two years later he was named to the number
two administrative post which he has held for 10 years.
During his tenure as provost, he was instrumental in the reorganization
of the academic units that reduced the existing six colleges into four
and created a new college of health sciences and human services and a
school of agriculture. He also assisted in establishing recruiting
agencies in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and
Vietnam.
Twice Brockway received the Outstanding Paper Recognition Award in the
college of business and public affairs and in 1988 he was selected by
the students as the Max Carman Outstanding Teacher at Murray State.
He has several articles in professional journals, including Journal of
Business and Public Affairs, Journal of Management Development and
Journal of Small Business Management.
He has made presentations at the MidSouth Marketing Educators
Conference, the Atlantic Marketing Association Conference and was the
keynote speaker at Daegu University in Korea.
Brockway will return to the classroom on a half-time basis in the fall,
teaching marketing classes in the college of business.
His other plans including traveling with his wife, Betty, visiting his
daughter, Beth, and remaining active in university and community life.
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