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Edison Trustee
Elected Vice-Chair of Board for National Community College
Organization
Dr. Richard N. Adams of Troy, one of nine trustees at Edison Community College, is the new vice-chair of the board of directors for the national
Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT).
Adams recently completed a one-year term as ACCT's secretary treasurer and was only the second Ohio community
college board member to ever be elected to an office with the national association. He also served as a member of the ACCT board of directors.
ACCT is a non-profit educational organization that
represents nearly 6,000 trustees from 572 governing boards of public and private community, technical, and junior colleges in the United States.
Adams is joined in leading the ACCT board by chairman George W. Little, a trustee from Sandhills Community College in North Carolina. The new chair-elect is from California; the secretary-treasurer, from Michigan.
At the state level, Adams was board chair for the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) from 1997 to 1999 and was on the OACC executive committee from 1999 to 2001.
In his new national post, Adams will work to provide educational experiences for community college trustees and
will serve as an advocate in Congress for legislation supportive of community colleges.
Adams said that the ACCT board plans to discuss with officials from community colleges in the United Kingdom the various ways in which the institutions can partner more closely on common concerns.
As an Edison trustee, Adams is currently serving a second six-year term which culminates in 2003. A Miami County commissioner from 1992 to 2000, he was vice-chairman of the Edison board in 1993 and 1994, and chairman in 1995 and 1996.
Recently, Adams and trustees from Edison met with community college trustees and officials from around the United States at a national conference to discuss all aspects of community college governance and mission.
Presentations included moving first-hand accounts from community colleges directly affected by the terrorist attacks new in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
Among the conference keynote speakers was David Wessel, a Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist. Wessel praised the efforts of community colleges, which, he said, make significant contributions to meeting workforce needs and are "local institutions solving global challenges."
December 6, 2001
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