William T. Slater is professor and dean of the College of Communication. Before he came to TCU, Slater served as dean of the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno and as dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University.

Before going to West Virginia, Slater was vice president for institutional advancement at Western Illinois University. He has held a similar position at Oregon State University.

Slater began his academic career as an assistant professor of communications at the University of Washington in Seattle. He then moved on to a visiting appointment at the University of Southern California for one year, and was subsequently appointed to chair the Department of Radio-Television at the University of Arizona. Slater has also served as dean of the College of Fine Arts at Eastern Washington University.

Before embarking upon an academic career, Slater worked for a number of years as a newspaper and broadcast journalist in Boston, Baltimore, Washington, New York, Cleveland and San Francisco. He was a radio and television news anchor for WBZ-TV-AM in Boston, and covered the White House for Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Slater also served as a vice president for Boston Broadcasters Inc. (WCVB-TV) and was press aide to the Governor of Massachusetts.

Slater is a former president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, an organization of journalism and mass communication school administrators.

He is co-author of two books, has been principal investigator on several communications projects in the U.S. and Canada, and has written and produced several award-winning documentaries, one of which was awarded a regional Emmy.

A.B. Tufts University

M.A. Stanford University

Ph.D. Stanford University