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State Merit Award Recipients
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Massachusetts Ann S. Coles |
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The IBM/Vermont State Colleges/University of Vermont Education Consortium Project |
The Eleanor M. McMahon Award for Lifetime Achievement
Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J.Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J. was president of Boston College for 24 years. He became chancellor in 1996. Prior to joining Boston College in August 1972 he held positions as acting president, vice president, and academic dean, chair of the philosophy department and professor and instructor at Le Moyne College in New York. He also served as instructor of philosophy at St. Peter’s College in New Jersey.
He is former chairman of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts.
He served as a director of the Bank of Boston from 1976 to 1996. He was interim president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities from 1996 to 1997 and co-chair of the Massachusetts Summit for the Promise of our Youth in 1997.
Monan currently serves on the board of directors of the National Mentoring Partnership and the Massachusetts Mentoring Partnership, which he founded and co-chaired from 1992 to 2001. He is a former Director of the Naval Academy Endowment Trust and the Yawkey Foundation.
He served on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Le Moyne College, and recently chaired a Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts at the request of the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Monan is a member of the Jesuit Philosophical Association, the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1942 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1955.
The Governor Walter R. Peterson Award for Leadership
J. Joseph GarrahyJ. Joseph Garrahy served four terms as governor of Rhode Island from 1976 to 1984 after four terms as lieutenant governor and three terms as state senator.
As governor, Garrahy recognized the importance of higher education in the development of the intellectual, economic, social and cultural life of the residents and communities of Rhode Island. He established the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education to efficiently coordinate accessible and affordable higher education opportunities in Rhode Island. He dramatically increased need-based scholarship funds for Rhode Island students, and he appointed Rhode Island’s first female commissioner of higher education, Eleanor McMahon.
Placing a priority on Rhode Island’s economic diversification, Garrahy also played an integral role in purchasing and redeveloping the former Navy facilities at Quonset Point.
As chairman of the National Governors’ Association’s Subcommittee on Health Policy, Garrahy was a key spokesman for state leaders on health matters. As chair of the Coalition of Northeast Governors’ Committee on Transportation, he worked to revitalize the Northeast Rail Corridor.
Garrahy served for two years on the New England Board of Higher Education and was a visiting professor at Providence College. He is a former senior vice president with the merchant banking firm of G. William Miller & Co. of Washington, D.C. He is an active member of numerous community organizations.
The David C. Knapp Award for Trusteeship
Grace K. FeyGrace K. Fey chaired the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2004. Appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1996, she has been a member of the Executive Committee, the Committee on Administration and Finance, the Audit Committee and the Development Committee.
Fey was president of the University of Massachusetts Foundation from 2003 to 2004, served on the Investment Committee and was a member of the Board’s Administrative Redesign Committee and the Ad Hoc Committees on Personnel and Diversity. She chaired the search committee that selected the current UMass-Amherst chancellor and was a member of the most recent UMass presidential search committee.
Fey is the executive vice president and director of Frontier Capital Management Co. in Boston, where she works with institutional and private clients. Fey is a trustee and member of the Investment Committee of the Huntington Theater Company, chair of Zoo New England and trustee of the Bank of America Celebrity Series. She is vice chair of the Commonwealth Institute and is an overseer of the Boston Center for Adult Education.
Fey holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the University of Virginia.
The Robert J. McKenna Award for Program Achievement
Project Running StartProject Running Start is a partnership between the New Hampshire Community Technical College System and New Hampshire high schools to help high school students earn high school and college credit concurrently during their regular school day.
The program addresses several important challenges facing students, families and the education system in New Hampshire, including college access and affordability, aspirations, and college preparation.
By utilizing New Hampshire high school faculty and classroom space, Project Running Start increases access to college and the opportunities available for a college education. The program makes college more affordable for students by offering credit classes at a fraction of the cost of tuition for an equivalent class taken at a college. After successful completion of college-level coursework, students view higher education as an obtainable goal and have credits they can transfer to college that will satisfy college program requirements.
Project Running Start includes a five-course pre-engineering sequence called “Project Lead The Way,” designed to interest high school students in engineering related careers.
Project Running Start began in 1999 with seven high schools in New Hampshire offering a total of 10 Community Technical College courses. Today, the project has almost 70 high schools offering a total of 397 courses and has an enrollment of almost 3,000 students.
William J. Cibes, Jr.William J. Cibes, Jr. retired from his post as chancellor of the Connecticut State University System on February 1, 2006.
Cibes was appointed head of the four-campus university system in 1994 after a national search. During a decade-plus of leadership, he has spearheaded advances in information technology, forged enhanced connections with Connecticut businesses and communities and cultivated new sources of funding for the four universities.
From 1991 to 1994, he was Connecticut’s Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, where he was responsible for formulating the annual state budget as well as policy development and planning.
Cibes represented Connecticut’s 39th district in the state’s House of Representatives from 1978 to 1991. During his 12 years in the General Assembly, he co-chaired the legislature’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee and the Higher Education subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, and served as deputy House speaker, assistant majority leader and majority whip.
He served on the New London Board of Education from 1974 to 1978 and was president in 1978. He served two terms on the New England Board of Higher Education and was vice chairman for Connecticut from 1989 to 1991.
Cibes holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and a doctorate from Princeton University.
Maine Policy ReviewThe Maine Policy Review is a joint publication of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy and the Margaret Chase Smith Library. The journal publishes independent analysis of public policy issues relevant to Maine by providing accurate information and thoughtful commentary.
For almost 15 years the Maine Policy Review has been relied upon by local, regional and state decision-makers as an important source for a thorough and balanced discussion of important issues including Maine tax reform, cruise ship tourism, hospital costs, education attainment, research and economic development, land use planning and sprawl, the forest products industry and Maine forests.
The journal is published two to three times each year and residents of Maine write the majority of featured articles. Articles undergo peer and policy review board scrutiny and are presented in a format that allows the reader to easily grasp key policy issues, challenges and options.
Ann S. ColesAnn S. Coles is senior vice president of College Access Programs at The Education Resources Institute (TERI) and director of Pathways to College Network, the national collaboration of 40 organizations she helped to establish that improves college preparation, access and success for underserved students.
Coles helped establish College Ready New England P-16 Alliance, the regionwide initiative coordinated by the New England Board of Higher Education and supported by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation to increase students’ readiness for postsecondary success and to improve college attendance and completion rates of underserved and underrepresented students.
Before joining TERI in 1995, Coles directed the highly regarded TERI College Access Center (formerly known as the Higher Education Information Center), which is housed in the Boston Public Library. She helped found the Massachusetts Think College Early group, an online college planning resource for elementary and middle school students, parents, counselors, teachers and youth workers, which was a precursor to the College Ready New England effort.
Coles was also one of the founders of the ACCESS scholarship program.
She has been recognized for her contributions to college access and success by the College Board, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the National Council for Educational Opportunity Associations and the New England Association of Education Opportunity Programs in Boston.
Coles holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a master’s degree from Boston University and a doctorate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Jobs for New Hampshire’s GraduatesJobs for New Hampshire’s Graduates assists at-risk youth in graduating from high school or obtaining their GED and provides students with necessary skills to enter work force or postsecondary education environments. The program was founded in 1987 and reorganized under nonprofit status in 2000.
Most students in Jobs for New Hampshire’s Graduates are economically disadvantaged, receive special education support, are behind in modal grade, have attendance issues and other barriers to success. The program encourages students to look at ways to expand their educational status beyond high school by providing leadership and personal skills training for independent thinking.
Jobs for New Hampshire’s Graduates works with both high school students and students who have dropped out of high school. The In-School program provides support to stay in school while delivering skills necessary to achieve academic success and work readiness skills. The Out-of School program provides GED, work readiness and occupational skills training opportunities by working collaboratively with the New Hampshire Community Technical Colleges and New Hampshire business communities.
Jobs for New Hampshire’s Graduates makes postsecondary education more accessible, more affordable and a possibility for underrepresented youth in New Hampshire.
Rhode Island Higher Education Assistance AuthorityEstablished in 1977 under the General Laws of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Higher Education Assistance Authority puts forth as its mission, “To provide educational choice to the residents of Rhode Island, promoting equal postsecondary opportunity to students who are restricted from participating in the educational program of their choice due to insufficient financial resources.”
The Authority administers the Rhode Island State Grant Program, which provides monetary awards to financially needy students, the Academic Promise Scholarship Program, designed to recognize students who have great financial need and have demonstrated academic promise, and is the guarantor of the Federal Family Education Loan Programs.
As the Administrator of the CollegeBoundfund, the second largest single-state tuition savings program in the nation with over $6.2 billion in assets, the Authority has encouraged and facilitated many families to save for college. There are over 460,000 families across the country currently taking advantage of this top-rated program.
The Authority is also very active in providing outreach services to students, parents, guidance counselors and financial aid administrators to ensure that needy students are able to navigate successfully through the financial aid process and receive the financial help they need to pursue and complete their educational endeavors.
In 1993, the Vermont State Colleges, the University of Vermont and IBM Corporation formed a partnership in which the state’s public higher education organizations administered IBM’s considerable education and training function. Since then, the colleges have become the training department at IBM’s 6,000-person manufacturing facility in Vermont.
A team of educational experts employed by the colleges works onsite to determine educational requirements throughout the plant, develop training programs, identify and hire subject matter experts, administer all training programs and manage the recordkeeping, classroom and registrarial logistics of all training at the IBM site.
The colleges function as a full strategic partner and an education “vendor” with the IBM Burlington business. This enables the company and the state to collaborate to meet the strategic training and development needs of IBM’s employees.
The partnership has helped the Vermont State Colleges and University of Vermont remain on the cutting edge of industry trends, economic development needs and workforce training requirements. Concurrently, IBM receives world-class educational support and access to a wide array of services and resources.
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