William F. Tate IV

William Tate
William Tate
	Tate in 2023
28th President of the Louisiana State University
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; May 2021
Preceded by	Tom Galligan (acting)
Personal details
Education	Northern Illinois University (BS); William F. Tate IV (B.S. 1982), President and Chancellor, Louisiana State University System and Louisiana State University; University of Texas at Dallas (MA); University of Maryland, College Park (PhD); Washington University School of Medicine (MPE, Masters in Psychiatric Epidemiology); William F. Tate IV, Ph.D. 1991, President and Chancellor, Louisiana State University System and Louisiana State University
	Scientific career
Fields	Education sciences; Epidemiology; Sociology
Institutions	Washington University; Texas Christian University; University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of South Carolina
Thesis	An Evaluation of the Function Knowledge of a Selected Group of Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Martin Johnson

William F. Tate IV is an American social scientist and higher education administrator. In May 2021, he was selected as president of the Louisiana State University system, and chancellor of the flagship school in Baton Rouge. He is the first Black person to hold the position(s), and the first to head any school in the Southeastern Conference.

Career

At the time of his acceptance of the LSU position, he was serving as Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of South Carolina, where he is also USC Education Foundation Distinguished Professor with appointments in Sociology, Family and Preventive Medicine, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics.

He previously served as dean and vice provost for graduate education and held the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professorship in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He also held the William L. and Betty F. Adams Chair at Texas Christian University and served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He is a fellow and past president of the American Educational Research Association, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Education in 2016.^[1]^[2] Tate was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2022.^[3]

Tate co-authored numerous mathematics textbooks including Silver Burdett Ginn Mathematics, Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics, Scott Foresman Science, and Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley enVisionMATH, and enVisionMATH Common Core.^[4]

Personal life

Tate was raised Catholic and is married to Kim Cash Tate, a popular Protestant YouTuber, singer, speaker, and writer.^[5]^[6] In 2015, Tate described his faith during a Veritas Forum event.^[7]

References

^ "William F. Tate IV". University of South Carolina. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
^ "William F. Tate IV". National Academy of Education. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
^ ^“William F. Tate IV” American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
^ "William F. Tate IV" (PDF).
^ Totten, Samuel; Pedersen, Jon E. (2014). Educating about social issues in the 20th and 21st centuries : critical pedagogues and their pedagogical theories. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. p. 323. ISBN 978-1-62396-630-0. OCLC 881455992. Tate's background as a Black Catholic and the support of his family have been instrumental to his success and his drive to enhance life's opportunities for students of color.
^ Morris, George (May 28, 2021). "Meet Kim Cash Tate: New LSU president's wife is a Christian author, speaker, vocalist". The Advocate. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
^ Tate, William (November 20, 2015). "Does God Matter? Interfaith dialogue on race". The Veritas Forum. Retrieved May 18, 2021.

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[1] "William F. Tate IV". University of South Carolina. Retrieved October 12, 2020.

[2] "William F. Tate IV". National Academy of Education. Retrieved October 12, 2020.

[3] “William F. Tate IV” American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved October 22, 2024.

[4] "William F. Tate IV" (PDF).

[5] Totten, Samuel; Pedersen, Jon E. (2014). Educating about social issues in the 20th and 21st centuries : critical pedagogues and their pedagogical theories. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. p. 323. ISBN 978-1-62396-630-0. OCLC 881455992. Tate's background as a Black Catholic and the support of his family have been instrumental to his success and his drive to enhance life's opportunities for students of color.

[6] Morris, George (May 28, 2021). "Meet Kim Cash Tate: New LSU president's wife is a Christian author, speaker, vocalist". The Advocate. Retrieved June 29, 2021.

[7] Tate, William (November 20, 2015). "Does God Matter? Interfaith dialogue on race". The Veritas Forum. Retrieved May 18, 2021.

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v t e Leaders of Louisiana State University
Superintendents	William Tecumseh Sherman (1859–1861) Linfield (acting, 1862–1863) Seay (1863) David French Boyd (1865–1877)
Presidents	David French Boyd (1877–1880) Johnson (1880–1883) Nicholson (1883–1884) (1887–1896) David French Boyd (1884–1886) Thomas Duckett Boyd (1886) (1896–1926) Atkinson (1927–1930) Smith (1930–1939) Hebert (interim, 1939–1941) Hodges (1941–1944) Hatcher (1944–1947) Fey (acting, 1947) Stoke (1947–1951) Middleton (1951–1962) Hunter (1962–1965)*
Chancellors	Taylor (1965–1974) Murrill (1974–1981) Wheeler (acting, 1981) Wharton (1981–1988) Bogue (interim, 1988) Davis (1989–1996) Jenkins (1996–1999) (interim, 2004) (acting, 2008 and 2012) Emmert (1999–2004) O'Keefe (2005–2008) Martin (2008–2012) Alexander (2013–2019) Galligan (interim) (2019–2021) Tate (2021–present)

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