Keith Hauk
Vice President, Stateside Military Operations
Biography
Colonel Keith Hauk (U.S. Army, Retired) serves as the Vice President of Stateside Military Operations at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), the nation’s largest, public 4-year institution, providing higher education services to servicemembers using Tuition Assistance and veterans using VA GI Bill education benefits. In this role, he leads the university’s on-the-ground and online efforts serving military-affiliated students across the country, with 50-plus locations across across the United States.
In collaboration with his overseas colleagues in Asia and Europe, Hauk centrally manages selected global services and support processes for UMGC military affiliated-students, including DoD MOU compliance and military service TA portal operations, producing required evaluated military degree plans and veteran benefits certification and program support. He actively represents UMGC on the entire range of issues affecting military voluntary education, veterans’ affairs, and the ways in which these and other programs are administered. He interfaces with DoD and military service voluntary education leadership, DANTES, the Department of Veterans Affairs, various State Approving agencies, and the American Council on Education (ACE). Additionally, he has served as the president of the National Association of Institutions for Military Education Services (NAIMES) since January 2023, and in September 2022 was appointed as the Vice Chair of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans’ Advisory Committee on Education. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at UMGC.
Hauk is a 29-year Army veteran who joined UMGC in September 2015 after retiring from active-duty. Over the course of his military career, he served in locations across the continental United States, Central America, Europe, and the Middle East, including combat tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. He holds an undergraduate degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point as well as advanced degrees from the Colorado School of Mines and the United States Naval War College.