Belton, Texas – On Wednesday, August 22, Larry Locke, Associate Dean if the McLane College of Business at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, will be the guest speaker at the university’s 173rd Fall Convocation service. The event will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the arena of the Frank and Sue Mayborn Campus Center. Convocation inaugurates the official opening of the new academic school year. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
This year’s convocation will also feature the parade of flags that has become a tradition in recent years. Students will process into the arena bearing flags that represent each of the countries around the globe and states around the nation from which UMHB students have journeyed to campus.
Locke began his higher education at Ouachita Baptist University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1984 with a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Education and Mathematics. He went on to earn the Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1990, where he was a Baker Scholar; in that same year, he also completed his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he served as Senior Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy and as a John M. Olin Law & Economics Fellow. He later returned to school to pursue a Master of Theology degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, which he completed, magna cum laude, in 2009.
Today, Locke serves as an associate professor and associate dean in the McLane College of Business. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Biblical Integration in Business and was named a Fulbright Specialist in International Business Law. An active member of the Texas Bar Association, he serves as a volunteer at Vista Community Church in Temple and as an advisor to a number of not-for-profit organizations. Locke has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 33 years; they have three children, Lindsay, Virginia, and Daniel, and one grandchild, Andrew.
