Dr. Joseph C. Rallo Biography

Dr. Joseph C. Rallo became the fourth President of Angelo State University in June of 2007 after a record of accomplishments in both higher education and the military.

Prior to heading the San Angelo, Texas, university, Dr. Rallo was the provost and academic vice president at Western Illinois University, following his position as dean of the College of Business and Administration and the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

He also served as the director of the Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation and was responsible for the creation of its journal Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

From 1992-1999, he chaired the executive committee of the Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU), a consortia of the 15 public institutions and Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, with extensive on-site programs focused on language, culture and business.

Dr. Rallo has published extensively on global business topics with an emphasis on the European Union and Japan. He was selected in 1978 as the first American Fellow to the European University Institute, established by the European Union as its primary educational and research institution, which is located in Florence, Italy. Dr. Rallo has also been named as a Fulbright Scholar and NATO Fellow and has testified before United States Senate committees on technology relations between the United States and the European Union.

Dr. Rallo received the B.A. in Russian history (1971) from Lafayette College, the J.D. (1976) from Western New England College, as well as the M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1980) in international relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Rallo served on active duty with the U.S. Navy from 1981-86 and with the U.S. Air Force from 1986-88. He remained on reserve duty with the U.S. Air Force from 1988 until his military retirement in 2008.