Joe MacAde 
Director, English Language Institute
Office: HL 316
Phone: 903-886-5274
E-mail: Joe_MacAde@tamu-commerce.edu
Joseph MacAde has over 25 years of experience in managing international student and scholar programs in the United States and overseas. This experience includes service as a director of either ESL or international programs at several U.S. colleges, most of them in the Boston area; experience managing a regional management education program for students from throughout Southeast Asia at the Mekong Institute in the Northeast of Thailand; a two-year stint at the world Bank Education Office where he worked as a researcher on best practices in international education ;work running an American university campus for New England College in W. Sussex, England; and, more recently, experience overseeing the establishment and licensing efforts a Korean-funded international university program on Long Island and later in assisting in the placement and support of Vietnamese students in U.S. graduate schools. Joe spent almost six years working in Southeast Asia, first as a refugee education programs coordinator and later as academic director of a regional management training center. He also worked in Korea, Qatar, China, and Egypt and has set up and/or administered study abroad programs in such countries as Brazil, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Australia.
Joe’s personal interests include reading, traveling, classical music, horseback riding and cross-country skiing. He holds a B.A. in History, an M.A. in International Administration, and an M.Ed. in Teaching English as a Second Language, and has completed the coursework, but not the dissertation for a doctorate in International Education.
