John Crompton

John Crompton

Dr. John Crompton: Distinguished Professor; AGLS Building 445; 979-845-5320; jcrompton@tamu.edu
Education: D.L.C., Loughborough College, 1966; M.S., University of Illinois, 1968; M.Sc., Loughborough University, 1970; Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1977
Specialty: Marketing and financing in parks, recreation and conservation.
Other Professional Experience: Managing Director, Loughborough Recreation Consultants Ltd; Past-President: American Academy of Park and Recreation Administration, Texas Recreation and Park Society, Society of Park and Recreation Educators, and Academy of Leisure Sciences.
Research Direction: Marketing and financing in parks, recreation and conservation
Awards – External-: Recipient of the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Research Award (NRPA); NRPA Distinguished Professional Award; NRPA National Literary Award; TTRA Travel Research Award; Cornelius Amory Pugsley Medal; the SPRE Distinguished Teaching Awards; TRAPS and NRPA Southwest Region Fellow Awards; Minnie Stevens Piper Professor; US Department of Agriculture National Teaching Award.
Awards – Internal: Regents Professor; Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence; Cintron University Professor for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence; Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards in Teaching and in Research; Vice Chancellor of Agriculture Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching; Senior Fellow in AgriLife Research; President George H.W. Bush Excellence in Public Service Award.