2009 Technology University President 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 4, 2024
Pollard Oakwood University President Dr. Leslie N. Yancy Vanguard Award, bestowed upon HBCU presidents who demonstrate steady and transformative leadership. “It The Fulbright scholar was the first African American to achieve tenured professor status at Georgia Institute of Technology. Yancy Vanguard Award,” said Pollard.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Wyss, a graduate of Harvard Business School, donated $125 million to establish the institute in 2009. “Since its founding 13 years ago, the Wyss Institute has been devoted to breaking down silos within and between academia and industry,” said Harvard University president Larry Bacow.
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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
OCTOBER 6, 2022
When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. "I We started a conversation about the impact of technology. Southern New Hampshire University. This was a lifelong conversation.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
MAY 12, 2022
He chaired the National Academies’ committee that produced the 2011 report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads. He was named in 2012 by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans.
The Change Leader, Inc.
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Leadership in Challenging Times: Insights on effective leadership for current and future university presidents. In 2009, he received the Carnegie Corporation Leadership Award, which included a $500,000 grant to support USM academic priorities. And they’re watching what those presidents have to go through.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
OCTOBER 17, 2023
There's another book called On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, who had been a university president and a combat infantryman in Korea at the Marshall School. He wove that together using technology to get effective outcomes. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
AUGUST 24, 2023
In 2016 he was chosen by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the Top Technology Innovators in higher education; and in 2018, he was listed by EdTechDigest as one of the Top Influencers in the education technology field. Bridget Burns is the founding Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).
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