Dr. Charles Garofalo

Charles Garofalo joined Texas State University in 1982 as Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Prior to coming to Texas State, his professional experience included serving on the staff of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and serving as Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Southern California. He joined the Department of Political Science in 1986 as a lecturer, received tenure in 1994, and was promoted to full professor in 2000.  From 1991 to 1996, he directed the department’s Master of Public Administration program. During his time in the department, he created and taught numerous courses in the areas of public administration and American politics. Beyond authoring and co-authoring more than two dozen book chapters and scholarly articles, he co-authored five scholarly monographs on ethics and morality in public administration. In 2009 he was named Public Administration Educator of the Year by the Central Texas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). Dr. Garofalo served as Chair of Texas State’s Institutional Review Board for Protection of Human Subjects in Research (IRB) from 2000 to 2003. From 2008 to 2011 he served on the Executive Committee of the ASPA Ethics Section. He has served as a consultant to a number of different organizations including the Federal Senior Executive Service, the ASPA, Vrije University (Amsterdam), and the University of Salamanca (Spain).