Dr. Carroll William (Bill) Cowles

CMU Richmond Center
Richmond, VA 23225
(804) 327-9330
cowle1cw@cmich.edu

Education

Ph.D., public policy and administration

M.S., international relations

B.A., history

Dr. Cowles has served the public for 45 years, first at the then National Bureau of Standards as an electrical resistance measurement specialist (1962-1966), then in the U.S. Air Force as a federal agent, aviator, operational planner, educator, and unit commander (1966-1986), and then at the Employment Support Institute as the director for management system innovations (1987-1993). 

Since 1994, he has been an educator of working adults, first as an assistant professor of business administration in the Averett College Adult Curriculum for Excellence (1994-1995); then as an associate professor of public administration at Troy State University (1995-1999), later as an associate professor of administration for Central Michigan University (1999-2004) and then as a regional chair for criminal justice and international relations at Troy University (2004-2007). 

He now teaches in the public administration program for Central Michigan University and serves as the off-campus public administration cohorts advisor.  He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality, an affiliate of the W. Edwards Deming Institute, and a member of the American Statistical Association, Decision Sciences Institute, Government Finance Officers Association, and the American Society for Public Administration.