About

Dr. Robert H. Taylor

I am Dr. Robert Taylor and I want to thank you for visiting my faculty webpage. I thought I would tell you a little about myself so you can get to know me better. I was born and raised in Pampa, Texas and graduated from Pampa High School in May 1985. I received an associate degree from Clarendon College in May 1997, and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree in Finance and Economics in May 1990 from West Texas A&M University (it was still West Texas State University when I graduated). Following graduation I worked in retail management for a several years before starting my own business. While running my own business and worked part-time as a corporate accountant for several of those years. I eventually gave up my own business to work full-time as an accountant.

In August 2002 I gave up my career in accounting to go back to WTAMU to pursue a master’s degree in economics. After graduating in Summer 2004 I started teaching Economics courses part-time for Clarendon College as an adjunct instructor while also beginning a PhD program at WTAMU full-time. In August 2006 Clarendon College hired me full-time as an instructor to teach Accounting, Business, Economics and Statistics courses. I continued to work on my PhD full-time as well and graduated with honors from WTAMU’s PhD program in May 2011. I achieved the faculty rank of Associate Professor before transitioning to administration at the College in March 2014 to serve as the College’s Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness and Title III Grant Director. I remained in that role until August 2019 when I moved back into faculty as a Professor and the QEP Director. While at Clarendon College I have also served as the College's LEAP Texas Liaison since 2014, and I have been serving an executive role at LEAP Texas as Treasurer since May 2018. In total I have been serving Clarendon College for 17 years as a full-time employee.