INSTRUCTORS

Name: Kent Brooks
Title: Dean/Chief of Technology Officer
Office: LRTC
Phone: 580.477.7764
Email: kent.brooks@wosc.edu


Biography: 
Kent Brooks has served as the Chief Technology Officer at Western Oklahoma State College for the past 11 years. He was an instructor, department chair and computer coordinator at the University of New Mexico – Gallup Campus. Kent has been heavily involved in numerous teacher-training projects and efforts in bringing networking and telecommunications technologies to rural areas. His grant writing efforts have brought over $4 million dollars to the state of Oklahoma to equip rural schools, tribal complexes and museums with distance learning technologies. Kent's work interests include the acquisition of technology and training resources for rural under served communities. He also occasionally teaches courses such as Micro Computer Applications or LANS and Data Communication so that as he says, " So that I don't forget that our primary job is still 'teaching school' and giving students the chance to further their education."