His responsibilities are focused on major campus planning for information technology and the development of alternative instructional delivery systems to promote educational equity and access to the university's academic and instructional programs for diverse student population groups in the region. Dr. Ingle is responsible for working directly with campus faculty, deans and other academic administrators to plan, design and develop a varied array of technology-based distance learning programs across the state of Texas, into Mexico, for regional governmental agencies, public and private sector groups, international agencies such as the U.S. Mexico Chamber of Commerce, and K-12 school systems.

Dr. Ingle holds a B.A. degree in Mass Media Communications from Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso); a Master of Science in Telecommunications with a concentration in educational telecommunications from the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University in New York; and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. His doctoral studies reflect an interdisciplinary study emphasis in international education and cross-cultural communication, educational media and technology, curriculum and instructional design, educational program planning and assessment, and the diffusion and adoption of educational innovations.

Of Hispanic ancestry, he is fully bilingual and bicultural in Spanish and English, and he possesses a good working knowledge of German and Portuguese as a result of his international work assignments in Brazil, Mexico, Central and South America, and Western Europe.

Among his current international activities is a comprehensive study of the educational and training needs of the State of Jalisco in Mexico, which he is conducting as part of a team of international experts working under the auspices of the Overseas Council for Educational Development (OCED).

Dr. Ingle's research and professional work focuses on the application of communication media and technology for instruction and training with specialization in the use of these media to promote educational equity and access across minority and multicultural population groups that have not been well served by the traditional educational system. He has been the recipient of two senior Fulbright-Hays Fellowships to Spain and to Perú, as well as the recipient of a senior postdoctoral fellowship (1987-88) from the Ford Foundation and the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. He was selected as a faculty fellow for the Annenberg Washington DC Telecommunications Policy Program of Northwestern University (Summer 1991) and the Leadership Institute for Communication Deans and Chairs at the Freedom Forum's Media Studies Center, Columbia University (1994), in New York. In 1998, he was one of 20 university faculty members participating in the Freedom Forum's Pacific West Coast Center program in San Francisco on new developments in digital communication media and information technology for education. During the summer of the year 2000, he was the recipient of a fellowship award from the University of Texas System to participate in the Distance Education Executive Leadership Institute convened by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

He has authored numerous articles, monographs, book and encyclopedia chapters, and technical and policy position papers in his areas of expertise, and he has headed UTEP's efforts to provide students with instructional opportunities via the WWW, the Internet, and interactive videoconferencing. This includes his own teaching at a distance on the impact of NAFTA, Mexico-United States relations, border communication practices, the use of the Internet for e-commerce, and the preparation of multicultural curricula tied to the use of distance learning media, methods and approaches which include two award winning Internet web sites and CD Roms entitled, The Borderlands Encyclopedia: A Digital Repository of Digital Resources on the U.S./Mexico Border Region and The Pedagogy of Electronic Instruction: A Compendium of Best Practices For On-Line Education.

From 1983-1987, Dr. Ingle served as the founding dean of the College of Communication and Professor of Communication at California State University, Chico. Dr. Ingle formerly worked overseas in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and in Washington, DC with the Federal government and several of the international development agencies (UNESCO, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Organization of American States, the U.S. Information Agency, World Education, and the Academy for Educational Development). These assignments focused on educational strategic planning, program evaluation and assessment, and project design activities linked to the use of communication media and instructional technology for socioeconomic development, non-formal education, workforce re-tooling and training, and instructional reform and school restructuring.

Just prior to assuming his present position at UTEP, Dr. Ingle was affiliated with The Tomás Rivera Institute for Policy Studies at the Claremont Colleges, where he also served as Executive Director of Connecting To Change, a California-based technical assistance, non-profit agency working with an array of communities, schools, universities and colleges, and small businesses addressing issues of educational equity and access, multicultural instruction and workforce diversity and pluralism, and instructional improvement. Other professional assignments have included: Director of Strategic Planning and Development for the Field Services Division of Educational Testing Service (ETS) in San Francisco, California; Director of Educational Projects for the Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) in Washington, DC; a member of the senior executive training faculty in the areas of policy formulation and program evaluation for the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Charlottesville, Virginia; Director of the Division of Program Evaluation and Assessment for the Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Carter Administration; and Senior Research Associate with the Women's and Minorities Program at the National Institute of Education of the U.S. Department of Education Washington, DC.

Overseas, Dr. Ingle has served as Chief of Party for the research and evaluation of the educational school reform program in El Salvador under the auspices of the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University and the U.S. Agency for International Development; Educational Advisor for the Organization of American States in Bogotá, Colombia; educational research and evaluation specialist in non-formal education programs in Panama and Guatemala for the Interamerican Literacy Foundation; as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Washington DC with the Institute for Educational Leadership of George Washington University and the NEA (the National Education Association); Director of Educational Media Services for the School of Education at Stanford University; and AV Technician for the Foreign Language Laboratories of the El Paso Independent School District.

Dr. Ingle sits on several advisory boards, professional committees, and national commissions. They include the Board of Trustees of the Mexico-North Research Consortium of The Smithsonian Institution; the Board of Economic Advisors of Hispanic Business Magazine, Inc., the Educational Grants Advisory Board of Apple Computer in Cupertino, California; the Board of Trustees of KCOS-TV, the PBS educational television station of the El Paso border region; and the El Paso Community Foundation's Pass of the North Cultural Heritage Fund. He also continues to serve on the Master Planning Committee for Distance Education for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in Austin, Texas; the National Advisory Committee of the University of Texas "Virtual University," the UT TeleCampus; and The National Science Foundation /Educause Project on Advanced Networking Technology for Minority Serving Institutions. He is a fellow at both the Texas Telecommunications Policy Institute and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He is professionally active in CONAHEC, the International Consortium for Higher Education across Canada, Mexico and the United States; Educause, the association for professionals working with information technology and telecommunications media in higher education; the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE); the International Communication Association (ICA); the Alliance for Public Technology; and the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), where he also is the current chair of AAHE's Hispanic Caucus and a member of the Constituency Leadership Council.