West Texas A&M University Athletics

Dr. Rausch, the Teel Bivins Professor of Political Science, has served as WTAMU’s Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) since January, 2003, promoting academic integrity in intercollegiate athletics and providing institutional control of athletics.

As Faculty Athletics Representative, Rausch represents the university at meetings of the NCAA and the Lone Star Conference. He joined the faculty in 1998 and teaches courses on American political institutions, state and local government, and social science research methods and statistics.

A native of southeastern Pennsylvania, Rausch earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1989, and his Master of Arts (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) from the University of Oklahoma, all in political science.

Rausch and his wife, Mary, a WTAMU librarian, reside in Canyon.