Dr. Joseph C. Rallo Biography

Dr. Joseph C. Rallo was appointed as President of Angelo State University, a component campus of the Texas Tech University System, in San Angelo, Texas on June 1, 2007.  Previously he served as Provost and Academic Vice President at Western Illinois University, a 13,500 student institution with campuses in Macomb and the Quad Cities.  Before joining Western Illinois University on July 1, 2003, Dr. Rallo was the 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.  While at Colorado, Dr. Rallo was responsible for the Executive MBA program and the Distance MBA, both accredited by AACSB-International and ranked in the top 20 nationally.

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, 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 transfer policy for the United States and the European Union.  From 1991-1999 he chaired the Executive Committee of the Japan Center for Michigan Universities, a consortium of the 15 public institutions in Michigan with its instructional site in Hikone, Japan.  

Dr. Rallo holds senior leadership positions on several boards serving as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Texas Council of Public University Presidents and Chancellors, President’s Committee on International Education-AASCU and President of the Council of Presidents for the Lone Star Athletic Conference (D-II). During his tenure, Angelo State University was named to the Princeton Review’s Best 371 Colleges for 2010 and to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Best Colleges to Work For-2009. Deeply involved in economic development, Dr. Rallo has established university based business incubators in Colorado, Illinois and Texas.

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.  He served on active duty in the United States Navy and then cross commissioned to the United States Air Force, with duty assignments in intelligence and logistics.  After 27 years of active and reserve service, he retired from the Air Force on July 2, 2008, with the rank of Colonel.