President-Elect Dr. XXXXX XXXXXXx

As a student at Arizona State, he attended WSU’s last-ever football game, played Nov. 15, 1986 in Tempe, Arizona. The Shockers lost 52-6.

He says he was known as being a bit of a dirty, hard-hitting defensive lacrosse player.

He charmed the search committee by singing “You Don’t Want to Go to War With the Shockers.”

He admits to being a “less than stellar” undergraduate academic performer but turned it around with applied learning experiences.

He put himself through college working as a police officer and environmental crimes detective.

He’s self-described as “somewhat of a nerd.”

He has already compiled detailed data requests and open-ended questions for the WSU deans and other campus leaders.

His training is in systems engineering, so he’s interested in understanding complex processes and improving their component parts.

He says he loves asking for money to support scholarships, research and university needs.

He was recognized as #23 on a list of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics; Dr. Golden was inducted into both Phi Kappa Phi (Honors Society) and Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Honors Society).

He says Sundays will be “student days” at the President’s house, when he and his wife, Dina, invite groups of students over for a meal.

He wants all prospective students and parents to get WSU items to put on their vehicles to show “Shocker Pride.”

He has extensively researched WSU and Wichita; he compiled a data book and a list of who he wants to meet in his 100 days on the job.

He has had more than 40 business and government consulting assignments for clients as varied as Walmart, Under Armour, the United Nations, John Deere, the State of California and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

He has authored more than 150 publications, including one that has been downloaded more than 100,000 times. It’s an economic impact analysis of the benefits of U.S. biobased products industry.