Kudos Roundup

The Rising Star Program endowment campaign received an award under the category of development projects and major gifts campaign in the 2002 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District IV Awards competition. Winners were recognized at a reception and ceremony on April 8 at the CASE District IV Conference in Oklahoma City. CASE, comprising a membership of 3,200 higher education institutions, is an international association that supports educational institutions by enhancing the effectiveness of alumni relations, communications and fund-raising professionals who serve them.

DCCCD Trustee Charletta Compton has been appointed to the Association of Community College Trustees Public Policy Committee. Her first meeting was held last February with the Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Herlinda (Linda) Coronado was recently named president of North Lake College. Her appointment was approved by the DCCCD board of trustees in January. Dr. Coronado replaces Dr. David England, who is now president and chief executive officer of Des Moines Area Community College in Iowa. Dr. Coronado, who previously served as vice president for student learning at Richland College, brings 27 years of community college teaching and administrative experience to her new role as president.

Valerie Freeman, vice chairman of the DCCCD Foundation board, was featured in an article in the March 29-April 4 issue of the Dallas Business Journal regarding the creation of a $10 million venture fund to invest in companies that are owned or operated by women. Ms. Freeman, CEO of the Imprimus Group, is co-founder of Dallas Women Angels, a group that created the venture fund and seeks to encourage more women to become entrepreneurs. The Dallas Women Ventures Fund, L.P., is the only such investment vehicle in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and one of only a handful nationwide.

El Centro College President Wright L. Lassiter, Jr., now serves on the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities. The U.S. Senate recently confirmed President Bush's nomination of Dr. Lassiter to the board, which awards grants to universities to study all disciplines of the humanities.

Congratulations to Cedar Valley College President Carol Spencer and Eastfield College President Rodger Pool for receiving the Shirley B. Gordon award. They will receive the award at the Phi Theta Kappa National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee in April. This award recognizes the promotion of Phi Theta Kappa goals locally and internationally, and only a few presidents receive this award each year.

DCCCD Foundation Executive Director Betheny Reid spent a day with the presidents and chief advancement officers of the 23 community colleges in the state of Virginia at the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Presidents and Chief Development Officers Conference last March. She was asked to present the Rising Star Program and other Foundation initiatives.

DCCCD Chancellor Bill Wenrich and Foundation Executive Director Betheny Reid were presenters in a special workshop on fundraising in higher education during the League for Innovation's 2002 conference in Boston in mid-March. Trustees Kitty Boyle, Pattie Powell, and Jeff Binford also attended the conference, which gathers higher education leaders throughout the world. Dr. Wenrich also chaired the general session during the conference.

May 2002