Dr. Shane Hunt is the President of Cameron University and a professor of marketing.
Before joining Cameron, Dr. Hunt served as Dean of the College of Business and Michael C. Ruettgers Professor of Marketing and Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship and Economic Innovation at Idaho State University.
During his time at Idaho State, he led the College of Business through successful AACSB re-accreditation in Business and Accounting and the most significant improvements to the College of Business building in its history. He oversaw unprecedented fundraising success during his five years there – including record levels of private scholarship endowments for students and an 1,100 percent increase in the number of endowed professorships.
While at ISU, Dr. Hunt served on the board of directors for the Pocatello-Chubbuck Chamber of Commerce and as the board president of the United Way of Southeastern Idaho.
He 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 research has appeared in The Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, The Journal of Business Logistics, and he is the co-author of four principles of marketing textbooks and two professional selling textbooks published by McGraw Hill that are used by students worldwide.
He is a first-generation college student who graduated with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration degree in Marketing and a minor in History from the University of Oklahoma. After completing his MBA at OU, Dr. Hunt worked for a Fortune 500 company in Tulsa and spent eight years working as a pricing analyst, product manager and business development manager before completing his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University.
He has been married for 25 years. He and wife Jenifer have two adult children, Andrew and Sarah.
