M. Cecil Mackey

M. Cecil Mackey (born January 23, 1929) was the president of University of South Florida from 1971 to 1976, Texas Tech University from 1976 to 1979, and Michigan State University from 1979 to 1985.

Prior to these academic posts, he was director of the Office of Policy and Development for the Federal Aviation Agency, director of the Office of Transportation Policy for the U.S. Department of Commerce, and assistant secretary for Policy and Development for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Mackey holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from the University of Illinois where he focused on economic theory, the history of economic thought, and the relationship of government to business and finance in economics. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and studied graduate law at Harvard University.

He currently is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Michigan State University, where he teaches online and hybrid courses in comparative economics, macroeconomics and general business law as well as focused-topic film study courses for the English department. Mackey is assisted in his coursework by long-time Michigan State University research assistants Steve Heslip and Sam McPherson. Under Mackey's supervision, McPherson was Michigan State's first-ever "cyber" or "virtual" teaching assistant (1999), in terms of physically residing out of the region while assisting with hybrid course instruction online.

Mackey previously taught at the United States Air Force Academy, University of Alabama, University of Maryland, College Park and Florida State University.

External links

Biographical Information (Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections)
Univ. of South Florida (Hall of Presidents – USF)
MSU News (Cecil Mackey biography – MSU)

Presidents of Michigan State University

Williams Fiske Abbot Willits Clute Gorton Snyder Kedzie Friday Butterfield Shaw Hannah Adams Wharton Harden Mackey DiBiaggio Guyer McPherson Simon

Texas Tech University Presidents

Paul W. Horn (1923–1932)
Bradford Knapp (1932–1938)
Clifford B. Jones (1938–1944)
William M. Whyburn (1944–1948)
Dossie M. Wiggins (1948–1952)
Edward N. Jones (1952–1959)
Robert C. Goodwin (1960–1966)
Grover E. Murray (1966–1976)
M. Cecil Mackey (1976–1979)
Lawrence Graves # (1979–1980)
Lauro Cavazos (1980–1988)
Robert W. Lawless (1989–1996)
Donald R. Haragan (1996–2000)
David J. Schmidly (2000–2003)
Donald R. Haragan # (2003)
Jon Whitmore (2003–2008)
Guy Bailey (2008–2012)
Lawrence Schovanec # (2012–2013)
Duane Nellis (2013–2016 )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim president.

Presidents of the University of South Florida

John S. Allen (1957–70) Harris Dean (1970–71) M. Cecil Mackey (1971–76) W. Reece Smith, Jr. (1976–77) Carl Riggs (1977–78) John Lott Brown (1978–88) Francis Borkowski (1988–93) Robert A. "Bob" Bryan (1993–94) Elizabeth R. "Betty" Castor (1994–99) Thomas Tighe (1999) Richard Peck (1999–2000) Judy L. Genshaft (2000– )

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