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Dr. Sidney Valentine will assume his new role as LIT president on Aug. 16.
The Board of Regents of the Texas State University System has confirmed Sidney E. Valentine, Ph.D., as president of Lamar Institute of Technology in Beaumont. Dr. Valentine was named sole finalist for the position last month following a national search. He will assume office Aug. 16.
Since 2015, Dr. Valentine has served as chief academic and student services officer at South Florida State College, where he provided academic leadership for the college’s transfer, vocational, technical, adult and community education, and workforce education programs. He also supervised the college’s applied research activities, grants, and institutional effectiveness efforts.
From 2011 to 2015, Valentine served as associate vice president of industrial and engineering technology at York Technical College in South Carolina. Prior to that, he was the director of workforce and economic development at the West Virginia Community and Technical College System.
Valentine earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of South Carolina and holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University Institute of Technology. He succeeds Dr. Lonnie Howard, who has served as president of LIT since 2016.
About the Texas State University System
The Texas State University System is the state’s first university system, with seven institutions serving more than 87,000 students from far West Texas to the Gulf Coast. Established in 1911, the mission of TSUS is “to provide high-quality, affordable degree and credential programs to meet the needs of Texas’ diverse and fast-growing economy.”