Timothy P. Mack

Timothy P. Mack is the Dean of the Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies. Mack joined Georgia Southern from Virginia Tech, where he served as associate dean for Information Technology and Distance Education. Mack was a faculty member at Auburn University from 1981-94 and joined Virginia Tech in 1994 as Head of the Department of Entomology. Mack became Virginia Tech’s Associate Dean for Information Technology and Distance Education in 2004 and led the development of a new online master’s degree program that involved 32 faculty teaching more than 24 online courses. He was also co-responsible for graduate education in Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Mack led the development of new college- wide standards for treatment of graduate students, defining time limits for funding of graduate students, and improving recruitment of graduate students. Since 2003, Mack has been involved with the Food and Agriculture Education Information System (FAEIS), which compiles national higher education data on the food, life, human, natural resource, veterinary and agricultural sciences. Mack received a B.A. in biology from Colgate University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology from Penn State. About 2,000 graduate students were enrolled at Georgia Southern in 2008.