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Direct linkFinney, Joni E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This article presents an interview with Robert Mendenhall, president of Western Governors University, who is the 2012 recipient of the Virginia B. Smith (VBS) Innovative Leadership Award. The annual award recognizes his leadership in redesigning higher education delivery for adult students. In the interview, Robert Mendenhall talks about his work…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Recognition (Achievement), Adult Students, Technology Uses in Education
Finney, Joni E.; Stoel, Carol F. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning are pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award, Julie M. Phelps. Phelps is a professor of mathematics at Valencia Community College who teaches and has studied and refined three types of…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Leadership, Supplementary Education, Interviews
Smith, Virginia B.; Finney, Joni E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
This article presents an interview with Ralph Wolff, the president and executive director of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges since 1996 and the 2008 recipient of the Virginia B. Smith (VBS) Innovative Leadership Award for his work in the redesign of regional accreditation. In this interview, Wolff discusses the creation of a new…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Accreditation (Institutions), Leadership, Interviews
Finney, Joni E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, has served as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), since 1992. He is coauthor of "Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males" (1998) and "Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women" (2001). Under Hrabowski's leadership, the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Educational Innovation, Talent Identification, Success
Smith, Virginia B.; Finney, Joni E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2007
This article presents an interview with Carol A. Twigg, winner of the 2007 Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award, sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. Twigg currently is president of the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) and from 1993…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Information Technology, Higher Education, Cost Effectiveness
