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Dr. Jay Gogue has a long and distinguished career as a higher education leader.
He served as president of New Mexico State University from 2000 to 2003 and later as interim president in 2023 and 2024. He served as president of the University of Houston and chancellor of the University of Houston System from 2003 to 2007. He was selected to lead Auburn University from 2007 to 2017 and again from 2019 to 2022 as the university continued to assert its status as a premier land-, sea- and space-grant university through research, academic rigor and national recognition.
Dr. Gogue started his higher education administration career in 1986 at Clemson University as vice president for research and vice president/vice provost for agriculture and natural resources. Utah State University selected him as provost in 1995.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Auburn and a doctorate in horticulture from Michigan State University.
Dr. Gogue was selected in 2013 for the Michigan State University Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2012, he was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor, a group of 100 Alabamians “chosen for accomplishment or service greatly benefitting or reflecting great credit on the State.”
Dr. Gogue is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key honor societies, Sigma Chi Fraternity, Sigma Xi scientific research society and the National Society of Scabbard and Blade, the honorary military society for all branches of service. He met his wife, Susie, in the 8th grade, and they married during their undergraduate years at Auburn. Like Dr. Gogue, Mrs. Gogue also earned two Auburn degrees. They are the parents of three children and have one grandchild.