Larry R. Vinson, Ph.D.

Larry Vinson has taught at the high school, community college, and university levels since 1978. He has BA and MS in Communication from the University Central Florida. In 1986 Dr. Vinson completed a Ph.D. in Communication with a cognate in statistics (Florida State University). Dr. Vinson came to McNeese in 1987. He works as a consultant with many area clients including local industries, government entities, law firms, and health care consulting companies. Dr. Vinson’s research focuses largely on real time assessment and modeling of business outcomes such as market size, customer satisfaction, and employee satisfaction. His latest research project has led to the development and implementation of a real time survey tool used to write, deploy, collect, and analyze survey data over the Internet. This tool is being used by several industry and media clients. Dr. Vinson is the Director of the Professional Sales concentration in the Department of Mass Communication.