NISOD Director Honored with National Leadership Award - April 18, 2007

Dr. Mark Milliron, director of the College of Education’s National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), was honored with the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) 2007 National Leadership Award on April 17 at the AACC annual convention in Tampa.

The National Leadership Award is presented to one person a year who has a long-term record of extraordinary accomplishments, contributions and leadership in the field of community college administration and teaching.

Milliron is the Suanne Davis Roueche Endowed Fellow and a senior lecturer in The University of Texas at Austin’s Community College Leadership Program (CCLP). He joined the CCLP in the summer of 2006 after serving as Vice President of Education and Medical Practice at SAS, the largest privately held software company in the world. Previously, he was president and CEO of the League for Innovation in the Community College, executive director of Global Learning Initiatives at Oracle and Vice President for Academic and Student Services at Mayland Community College. Milliron received his doctorate in education leadership from The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Kellogg Senior Research Fellow, and he recently was named a distinguished graduate of the College of Education.

Milliron is author and moderator of the Catalytic Conversations Blog and was named one of the top Shapers of the Future by Converge Magazine in 2000. In 2005, PBS Adult Learning Service awarded Milliron its O’Banion Prize for transformational work in support of teaching and learning, and while teaching at Arizona State University he received the International Communication Association’s Teaching Excellence Award.

NISOD is the outreach vehicle and service arm of the CCLP and has as its goal the professional development of higher education faculty, administrators and staff. Since 1978, when NISOD was created, it has devoted significant resources to innovation and excellence in teaching and learning and now serves more than 700 member institutions around the globe. NISOD provides conferences, research, Web resources, publications, awards programs and projects with corporate partners, all in support of community colleges and other institutions of higher learning.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AACC is considered the “national voice for community colleges” and is the primary national advocacy organization for community colleges. It supports and promotes its member colleges through policy initiatives, creative programs, research and strategic outreach to business, industry and the national news media. AAC membership includes close to 95 percent of all accredited two-year community, junior and technical colleges in the U.S. – and the 10.5 million students who attend those colleges - as well as international members in Puerto Rico, Japan, Great Britain, Korea and the United Arab Emirates.

—Kay Randall, University Communications, 512-232-3910

Related Links:

• NISOD Website
• CCLP Website