Dr. Henry T. Ingle

Dr. Henry Ingle is Professor of Communication and Associate Vice-President for Technology Planning and Distance Learning at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), where he has directed a number of innovative instructional technology projects since 1993 under the auspices of the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Most recently these projects have included the only TIIAP Planning Grant awarded in Texas from the TIIAP (Telecommunications Information Infrastructure Assistance Program) at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Entitled Border Dialogs on Technology: Planning the Super Information Highway for the Border Region of Southwest Texas, the project is part of an on-going joint partnership with the information media and telecommunications business sector involving Southwest Bell Telephone, Paragon Cable/Time Warner, Fujitsu, The V-Tel Corporation, IBM, Apple, Envision Technology and a host of library, education health, community-based, local government and non-profit sector agencies, which subsequently have coalesced as the Trans-Border Information Technology Collaborative (TB-ITC). The project has electronically connected the border region communities of El Paso, Texas; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua via a high-speed backbone network for interactive communication, Internet access, data transfer and videoconferencing. Dr. Ingle also sits on the national advisory committee on distance education of the UT TeleCampus.

Bicultural and bilingual in Spanish and English, Dr. Ingle holds a B.A. degree in Mass Communications and Broadcasting from the University of Texas at El Paso (1965), an M.S. in Telecommunications from the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University (1966), and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Communication and Education from Stanford University (1973).