Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 6, 1993 TAG: 9301060113
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau (staff)
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Medium
TECH NAMES VICE PROVOST
Patrick Reginald Liverpool has been named vice provost for university outreach and international programs at Virginia Tech. His job becomes effective Feb. 1.As vice provost, Liverpool will oversee the university's public service and continuing education programs.
He also will put together the university's international program and activities, including overseeing the study-abroad programs.
E. Fred Carlisle, provost, said Liverpool will help Tech focus and expand public service and international programs.
Liverpool, 46, has served as dean of the School of Business at Virginia State University since August 1990.
Before he went to Virginia State, he was a management professor at Howard University in Washington and at the University of Toledo in Ohio.
He also has taught at Kent (Ohio) State University and at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., where he was chairman of the Department of Economics and Management.
At Kent State, Liverpool directed the Small Business Institute.
He also was assistant chief cooperatives officer of commerce and marketing of the Ministry of Economic Development for the government of Guyana in South America.
"When you look at the university's outreach program, you recognize that Virginia Tech has the intellectual resources to address some critical domestic and global issues," Liverpool said in a Tech news release.
Liverpool received a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration and a master's of business administration in marketing from Inter American University of Puerto Rico.
In 1970, he received a diploma in cooperatives and labor studies from the Afro-Asian Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel. He received a doctorate in business administration from Kent State in 1985.