Dr. Robert E. Witt is president of the University of Alabama as of March 1, 2003. His experience includes 35 years in the University of Texas system, including 10 years as dean of the University of Texas at Austin business school and the past eight years as president of the University of Texas at Arlington. The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Dr. Witt joined the business school faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1968, and rose through the ranks as chair and associate dean. He was named the Zale Corporation Centennial Professor in Business in 1983. Two years later he was named to the Mortimer Centennial Professorship in Business and that year became acting dean of business. In 1985, he was named dean, a position he would hold for nine years at a business school ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top seven schools of business in the world. The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ...

In 1995, Dr. Witt went to University of Texas at Arlington as interim president. He was named permanent president in 1996. His accomplishments at UT-Arlington included: The University of Texas at Arlington , usually referred to as UT Arlington or UTA, has a student population of roughly 25,000 and is the third largest institution of the University of Texas System (after the University of Texas and the University of Texas at San Antonio). ...

• Turning around an enrollment decline and making UTA the fastest growing university in Texas today
• Partnering with the Chamber of Commerce to establish the Arlington Technology Incubator
• Creating a Nanotechnology Research and Teaching Facility
• Establishing the University's first alliance of African American ministers and community leaders to assure the needs of minority students are addressed.

Dr. Witt received his bachelor's degree in economics in 1962 from Bates College, his M.B.A. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. from Penn State University. For other uses, see Bates (disambiguation), Bates (surname) Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related land-grant university in Pennsylvania, with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the state. ...

In 2005, Dr. Witt underwent a divorce with his wife. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Also in 2005, Dr. Witt was initiated into the Alabama Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ) is an international fraternity founded in 1848 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ...

During his tenure at the University of Alabama, Dr. Witt has destroyed Palmer Lake to erect a temporary, multi-million dollar residence hall (slated for demolition in 2010) which is to be turned over to a property management company run by a local real estate mogul, Stan Pate, who is just as unethical is Dr. Witt; as well as using every means at his disposal to rip-off the students who attend the University; ie, his "Dining Dollars" program, where some $300/semester per student goes to pay Aramark (guised as "Bama Dining") for serving students overpriced institutional-style food. Tuition is jacked-up every semester to pay for wonton, needless construction around campus (for example, $200,000 to build a fountain that has no asthetic quality whatsoever). He has no real connection to this University of Alabama and has no qualms about turning the campus into something that resembles a strip mall. Unlike most University presidents, Dr. Witt enjoys no support from any of the liberal arts schools; catering only to science, engineering and the business schools. In addition, Dr. Witt has made it abundantly clear all he really cares about is pulling the largest profit he possibly can to make the Board of Trustees happy.