Welcome and Congratulations
President C. Shane Hunt
Presiding over today’s ceremony is Dr. C. Shane Hunt, President of Cameron University.
Before becoming Cameron’s 18th president in the summer of 2025, Dr. Hunt served as Dean of the College of Business, Michael C. Ruettgers Professor of Marketing, and Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship and Economic Innovation at Idaho State University. From 2007-2020, he was on the faculty of Arkansas State University, where he served as a marketing professor and Dean of the College of Business.
President Hunt is a first-generation college student who graduated with a Bachelor in Business Administration degree in marketing from the University of Oklahoma. After completing his Master of Business Administration degree at OU, he worked for a Fortune 500 company in Tulsa and spent eight years as a pricing analyst, product manager and business development manager before completing his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University, where he majored in marketing.
Dr. Hunt is the recipient of the 2010 National Inspire Integrity Award from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the 2010 Lt. Col. Barney Smith Award for Professor of the Year, and the 2019 National Teaching Innovation Award from the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators. In addition, he was named the 2015 Honors Professor of the Year at Arkansas State University and the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Faculty Member of the Year.
Dr. Hunt’s first year as president of Cameron has been filled with successes, including the first naming gift of a school in the history of the university, the largest external research investment in Cameron’s history, and the launch of the university's first four-year bachelor’s degree program in engineering history. In addition to his role on campus, Dr. Hunt currently represents Cameron University on the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce, the Lawton-Fort Sill Economic Development Corporation, the Duncan Area Economic Development Foundation, and the Fires Innovation Science and Technology Accelerator (FISTA) in Lawton.
Dr. Hunt’s research has appeared in The Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management and The Journal of Business Logistics. He co-authored four principles of marketing textbooks and two professional selling textbooks published by McGraw Hill that are used by students worldwide.
President Hunt has been married for 26 years to his wife Jenifer and they have two adult children, Andrew and Sarah.
