Dr. Cornell Menking

Cornell H. Menking is an international educator who has held senior positions at both U.S. and Latin American universities. He currently serves as a lecturer teaching GBL 1311: Perspectives on Global Culture. He has advised foreign governments and universities on topics such as leadership, higher education internationalization, accreditation, and English for speakers of other languages.

He is multilingual (Spanish, Russian, West African Krio), has interdisciplinary interests (global education, educational leadership, pedagogy, assessment, learning and the brain, entrepreneurialism), and varied talents (oil painting, leather crafting, musician, graphic/web design, photographer, and outdoor sports). Menking has served as Director of the Global Gateway Program at Baylor University since its founding in 2018.  As that program is phased out, he is transitioning to Director of Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives (Acting).

Previously, he served as a professor and senior administrator at New Mexico State University (Vice Provost, Associate Professor), Kentucky State University (Assistant Vice President), Western Kentucky University (Chief International Officer), and Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador (Professor, Director of Masters in Education Program, Director of International Programs, and Associate Dean of the Graduate School). He served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, West Africa, lived in Russia, and worked in Asia, India, and Latin America in the areas of leadership and sustainable development. He has a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University (1986), and a Master’s (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.