OSUIT Senior Leadership is composed of administrative leaders from across the university. Leadership meets regularly to discuss and oversee all aspects of the university including academic services; student services; workforce and economic development; fiscal services; marketing and communications; technology services, and grants and fundraising.
Senior Leadership reflects a variety of voices with diverse backgrounds and administrative functions that provides counsel to the vice president of operations and informs high-level decision making.
Because of this synergy of ideas and viewpoints, the community is better served through representative talent from across the institution.
Chris Benge
Chris Benge has spent his career serving the people of Oklahoma. As Interim Vice President of Operations at OSUIT, he leads the operations and provides strategic vision for Oklahoma State University’s technical education branch campus.
Benge worked with his father in a small family-owned painting and construction business before serving in the Oklahoma House of Representatives for 12 years. During his time in the House he served for three years as chairman of the House Appropriations and Budget Committee and as Speaker of the House from 2008 to 2010.
After leaving the House due to term limits, Benge returned to Tulsa to work as an advisor to Mayor Dewey Bartlett, and in 2011 he was named senior vice president of government affairs at the Tulsa Regional Chamber.
In November 2013, Benge was appointed Oklahoma Secretary of State by Gov. Mary Fallin. In February 2015, he also became Oklahoma’s Secretary of Native American Affairs. Benge transitioned to the role of Fallin’s Chief of Staff in October 2016.
In 2019, he joined OSU Center for Health Sciences as executive director of Rural and Tribal Health Policy at the Center for Rural Health, and in 2021 he returned to his alma mater as Interim Senior Vice President at OSU-Tulsa. He joined OSUIT at the Vice President of Operations in 2023.
Benge is passionate about promoting the unique qualities that make Oklahoma an ideal place to live, work and play. He has represented the state on diplomatic missions abroad to South Korea and Taiwan and demonstrated his commitment to raising Oklahoma’s profile on the world stage by creating a stateroom for international guests in the State Capitol building.
Dr. Ina Agnew
Dr. Ina Agnew is responsible for helping students access a college education, which includes assisting with applying for admissions, identifying funding to pay for college, helping active duty military persons and veterans, and providing students with the opportunity to recreate and socialize through activities offered in the residence halls and through student life.
She has held previous positions as Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Enrollment Management. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Human Resource Management and Psychology from the University of South Florida in Tampa; a Master of Science in Human Services from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky; and a Ph.D. in Occupational Education from OSU Stillwater. Agnew is Vice Grand Lady of the Knights of St. Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary, and a member of the Friends of the Library for the Okmulgee Public Library.
Charlie Carroll
Associate Director for Corporate and Foundation Relations, OSU Foundation405-332-6298
ccarroll@osugiving.com
Carroll currently serves as the Associate Director for Corporate and Foundation Relations for the Oklahoma State University Foundation. At the OSU Foundation, she works to identify and cultivate ongoing strategic partnerships to secure private support for students and faculty members at OSUIT.
Before joining the OSU Foundation team, Carroll worked in the oil and gas industry in marketing sales to financial analysis.
She and her husband, Conner, reside in Tulsa, OK, and are proud dog-parents to Piper, their cocker spaniel.
Devin DeBock
Devin DeBock is the Dean of Students at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology.
DeBock earned a master’s degree in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine from Oklahoma State University-Stillwater; and a bachelor’s degree in Recreational Therapy, Allied Health and Sports Medicine from Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Since 1999, he has served in several roles at OSUIT including Director of Student Life, Director of Residential Life, Wellness Coordinator, Director of Emergency Management and Chief Conduct Officer.
Before he came to OSUIT, DeBock worked at OSU Stillwater as a teaching graduate assistant in Health and Sports Medicine and at Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s Residential Life Department.
Lindsay Lynch
Lindsay Lynch joined OSUIT in December 2018 as the Publications Coordinator/Writer before becoming Director of Marketing and Communications in November 2021.
Prior to joining the university, she held the position of senior integrated marketing specialist at GlobalHealth, a local health plan, where she managed many aspects of marketing and communications including company branding, public relations, event promotion, social media, website copy and creative updates, direct mail, print media, tv-media, search engine marketing and email marketing.
She also worked as an account executive for BlueView, a digital marketing agency in Tulsa, managing upward of 20+ clients.
Her prior experience also includes work done within Rogers State University Public Relations in Claremore, Oklahoma as an undergraduate, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communications and minor in Graphic Design.