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CIC PRESENTS
TOP ACADEMIC AWARD FOR 2004

WASHINGTON, DC—The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) announced today that Ann Taylor Green, provost, vice president for academic affairs, and professor of mathematics at Bethune-Cookman College, received CIC’s top academic award for 2004, the Chief Academic Officer Award.

The award was presented at CIC’s Chief Academic Officers (CAO) Institute, held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco, California. The honor was conferred by the chief academic officers (CAOs), who are typically the second-ranking officer after the president at each of CIC’s 530 member colleges and universities.

During the award presentation, CIC President Richard Ekman noted that Green’s “dedicated commitment to addressing both campus and national challenges, as well as her tireless work on higher education reform internationally, earns her the status of ‘senior stateswoman.’”

Green is well known for her contributions to colleagues at private colleges and universities, as well as for her longstanding service to the higher education community. During her 14 years of service as CAO of Bethune-Cookman College, she has created a faculty development center, established student exchange programs, created new majors, improved the level of student achievement, and recruited impressive new faculty members. She has been an active participant in the CIC Institute for Chief Academic Officers, serving a term on the CAO Task Force, leading sessions at the New CAO Workshop, and facilitating the annual meetings of CAOs of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She has also been involved in the Salzburg Seminar, through which she has worked on higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Russia.

Ekman congratulated Green for her “considerable contributions to academic leadership,” and noted that her “efforts to prepare the next generation of chief academic officers provides an example of remarkable success to all members of the higher education community.”

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