William L. Maloy
Dr. Maloy holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nebraska, Omaha. His doctorate is from Florida State University.
Dr. Maloy served in World War II was recalled to active naval duty for service in the Korean Conflict. He came to Pensacola in 1952 with thoughts of a Navy career. Instead, he began his education career in Florida as a teacher and Assistant Dean of Boys at Pensacola High School and later as Assistant Principal at Pensacola’s newly opened Escambia High School.
Following passage of the National Defense Education Act, Dr. Maloy was invited to join the Florida Department of Education as a consultant in guidance and testing and later became the first consultant in Instructional Systems, spearheading the State’s early efforts in using technology to promote learning. In 1964, he joined the Florida State University faculty as a professor and Director of Placement and later as Assistant Dean of the College of Education.
Dr. Maloy served as Education Advisor to two governors: Claude Kirk and Reuben Askew. Governor Askew appointed Dr. Maloy to the Florida Board of Regents in 1978. He served nine years as a member of this governing body of the State’s University System. In 2001, he was inducted into Florida’s Education Hall of Fame.
Dr. Maloy retired from Federal Civil Service in 1992 and became Superintendent of Schools in Escambia, County, Florida, the Nations’ 78th largest school district. He retired from the superintendence to teach, write, and consult on human resource development issues, particularly those associated with “cast-off” populations, and on the use of instructional technologies as teaching/learning multipliers.
Presently, Dr. Maloy is a Senior Research Scholar in the College of Professional Studies, University of West Florida. In this capacity, he has overseen several of Florida’s Advanced Distributed Learning initiatives to repurpose technologically-based military training materials for use with welfare reform clients and selected prison populations.