Howard Y Patterson, Ph.D.
Brief Bio
Dr. Howard Patterson servesas UT Tyler’s Vice President over Governmental Relations, Student Auxiliary Services, Emergency Management, and Intercollegiate Athletics.
He was hired as UT Tyler’s first Athletics Director and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs in 2001, tasked with enhancing campus life, including starting a NCAA DIII intercollegiate athletics program. This involved building all of the facilities, hiring the staff, gaining NCAA Division III membership; essentially developing a 15 sport NCAA Division III program from scratch. Patterson has also served the University various capacities over his ten year career at UT Tyler. They include Dean of Student Affairs, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Vice President for Student Affairs.
He has overseen Enrollment Management, Financial Aid, News & Information, Marketing, Student Services, Career Services, Student Life and Leadership, the Student Health Clinic, Intercollegiate Athletics, The Herrington Patriot Center, and Recreational Sports and Intramurals. Currently he oversees Intercollegiate Athletics, the Herrington Patriot Center, Recreational Sports and Intramurals, Campus Dining Services, the Patriot Printing Center, Residence Life, the campus’ Barnes & Nobel Bookstore, and the Student Health Center. He also serves as UT Tyler’s liaison for Governmental Affairs with UT System and State and Federal legislators and coordinates UT Tyler’s Emergency Management planning and response. Patterson helped start UT Tyler’s Honors Program, Greek Life, and Emerging Leaders Program for local high school juniors.
Patterson is a New England native, born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. His first job was that of men’s soccer coach and Instructor of Physical Education at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. After seventeen seasons and one of the winningest records in men’s college soccer, he served as the Athletics Director and assistant professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio for eleven years. He coached men’s soccer for eight 8 seasons and left UIW in 2001 to begin his tenure at UT Tyler.
Patterson also serves on various community organizations. He is president of the Whitehouse School Board of Trustees, and is a member of the Smith County Bar Foundation, the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, First Tee Board of Directors, Missional Renaissance Leadership Community, and is a board member of the Whitehouse Parks & Recreation Committee
Dr. Patterson’s wife is a Pre-K teacher and they have three children, one of which is enrolled at UT Tyler.