Welcome Wilson, Sr.

UH System Board of Regents

Chairman, GSL Welcome Group, LLC

Welcome W. Wilson, Sr. was elected chairman of the UH System Board of Regents in August 2007.  He was appointed to the Board in April 2006 by Governor Rick Perry and will serve through August 31, 2011.

He is chairman of GSL Welcome Group, L.L.C., a group of companies that own and lease single-tenant industrial facilities in Texas. He is principal in Kingham Dalton Wilson, LLC, which is active in the construction of build-to-suit and design/build projects.

Since 1958, he has been a real estate developer of subdivisions, apartment complexes, shopping centers, industrial facilities and office buildings. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was board chairman of three Texas banks.

He served in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as a five-state Director of Civil and Defense Mobilization, a divisiion of the Executive Office of the President.  He also had responsibility for what is now known as FEMA.  In 1966 he was appointed Special Ambassador to Nicaragua by President Lynden Johnson.  He was a witness to the Atom Bomb tests in Nevada in 1954 and the Hydrogen Bomb test in Bikini Atoll in the pacific in 1956.  In 1958 he was selected as one of Ten Outstanding Young Men in Federal Service.

He received a BBA degree from the University of Houston in 1949, where he received its UH Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1970 and the C.T. Bauer College of Business Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1996.  He received an AA degree from Texas Southmost College in 1946, and received its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2005.

Dr. Gail Gillan

Director, LAS and Wellness

University of Houston

Dr. Gail Gillan was named Director for Learning and Assessment Services at the University of Houston, in September 2006, after serving 6 years as Director of UH Wellness and 11 years on the counseling center staff at the University of Houston. Dr. Gillan has a doctorate in Communication from Southern Illinois University, an M.S.S.W. in Social Work from University of Texas-Arlington, a master’s degree in communication from Southwest Texas State University, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Southwest Texas State University. Her areas of expertise range from women’s health and wellness concerns, to human sexuality, to alcohol and substance abuse prevention. While remaining licensed as a clinical social worker, Dr. Gillan has turned her career toward administrative responsibilities with an emphasis on helping the University of Houston and its surrounding community become a safer, healthier learning environment.

Mark Tengler, M.S.

Manager, Educational Partnerships

Houston Community College

Mark Tengler is the manager of educational partnerships for the Houston Community College System.  He directs the Transfer and Articulations Office for HCCS, which inludes facilitation and maintainance of all articulation agreements and evaluation all academic faculty and applicants for SACS credentials. 

He is a state committee member of the Lower Level Academic Course Guide Manual committee, a member of the state Curriculum and Core Curriculum Committee, and an adjunct faculty member is Psychology for several universities.  Additionally, he is a very active member of the Gulf Coast Articulation Consortium.  Prior to his work with HCCS, he completed an M.S. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin an was in private practice for 15 years.