Alan Freitag:  

Freitag holds the title of Professor Emeritus with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. As a professor and assistant dean with UNC Charlotte from 1998-2021, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in public relations. He established the university's chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. Under Freitag’s guidance, the public relations program earned CEPR certification through the Public Relations Society of America. In 2006, he received the first Bonnie E. Cone Early-Career Professorship in Teaching Award. Freitag served as university faculty president, 2009/10. For six months in 2012, Freitag conducted research in Poznań, Poland, under a Fulbright research grant, and he served again in Poznań during 2015/16 in a Fulbright Distinguished Chair fellowship. For his last two full-time years, Freitag served as assistant dean in the Graduate School. During spring 2019, he was a Visiting Professor with the Poznan University of Economics and Business in Poznań, Poland. UNC-Charlotte is one of 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina system and has a student population exceeding 30,000 including nearly 6,000 graduate students. He earned an associate’s degree in television production and direction from the Milwaukee Area Technical College (1971); a bachelor of science degree in radio, television and film from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (1973); a master of arts degree in business administration and public administration from Webster University, St. Louis (1977); and a Ph.D. in mass communication, specializing in public relations, from Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism (1999). A U.S. Air Force veteran, Freitag retired in 1995 as a lieutenant colonel after 22 1/2 years of service. His service included nearly 10 years in Europe and four years in the Pentagon. He began his career as a navigator on C-130 Hercules aircraft then entered the public affairs career field. He served in marketing for Air Force recruiting, on the operations staff of the American Forces Network - Europe, as director of public affairs for a U.S. air base in England, with Air Force legislative liaison in Washington, D.C., as director of media relations for the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization at the Pentagon, as director of media relations and press aide to the Supreme Allied Commander for NATO's military arm in Belgium, and as assistant director of public affairs for t...Expand for more