Dr. Rodney Ellis

Director, UT Tyler Longview University Center

Dr. Ellis is active in the East Texas community, serving Rotary Club of Longview, STAR Foundation Board of Directors, Salvation Army Board of Advisors, and Longview Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Task Force. He earned his doctorate in Higher Education Administration and has nearly twenty-nine years of experience in postsecondary education with over twenty-two of those years as a Senior Level Administrator in higher education. Dr. Ellis was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and has two daughters.