Clarence Alvin Bowman is an American

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and former

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Illinois State University Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University, it is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teaching and is recognized as one of th ...

(ISU). He was trained in, and still teaches upper-level classes in, speech pathology. Bowman, an African-American, received a bachelor's degree in

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from Augustana College in 1975, a

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in speech-language pathology from Eastern Illinois University in 1976 and a PhD in speech and hearing science at

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in 1979. He started his academic career with ISU in 1978 as a faculty member in the Department of Speech Pathology and

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(now the Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders) and in 1994 he was appointed chair of the department, as well as director of Down Syndrome Speech-Language Clinic. In 2002, Bowman left the chair position to serve as Illinois State's interim provost. He was named President of ISU in March 2004 following a vote by the Board of

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s. His wife, Linda Bowman, is an adviser and faculty member in the graduate division of the Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders. He and Linda have two daughters, Laura and Natalie. He announced his retirement in December 2012.

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