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Commission on International Initiatives

The Commission on International Initiatives advises ACE on its initiatives in internationalization and global learning and in our contacts with other countries. The Commission guides ACE in its work in the following general areas:

• Providing policy guidance to U.S. institutions wishing to internationalize their programs.
• Working with other associations to increase support for international education activities from the federal government, state governments, and the private sector.
• Working with national and regional associations of universities abroad on issues of common interest to U.S. college and university presidents and their counterparts in other countries.

Under the Commission on International Initiatives' guidance, ACE commissions studies, issues papers, and convenes international meetings as well as meetings of U.S. presidents. Once a year, the Commission meets jointly with the Leadership Network for International Education, a broader group including both presidents and chief academic officers, to discuss a major issue in the internationalization of higher education. ACE also occasionally sponsors projects involving institutions and associations in other countries and is one of six presidential associations cosponsoring Higher Education for Development.

Commission Chair

Roderick J. McDavis, President, Ohio University
Term Ending June 30, 2010

ACE Staff

Madeleine Green, Vice President, International Initiatives
Christa Olson, Associate Director, Center for International Initiatives
Barbara Hill, Senior Associate, Center for International Initiatives

Term Ending June 30, 2010

Susan C. Aldridge, President
University of Maryland University College

MaryAnn Baenninger, President
College of Saint Benedict (MN)

Charles R. Bantz, Chancellor
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Carole M. Berotte Joseph, President
Massachusetts Bay Community College

Richard G. Carpenter, Chancellor
North Harris Montgomery Community College District (TX)

Raymond E. Crossman, President
Adler School of Professional Psychology (IL)

Jerry M. Greiner, President
Arcadia University (PA)

Ann Weaver Hart, President
Temple University (PA)

Chester D. Haskell, President
Cogswell Polytechnical College (CA)

Douglas A. Kristensen, Chancellor
University of Nebraska at Kearney

Francisco Marmolejo, Executive Director
Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (AZ)

Daniel S. Papp, President
Kennesaw State University (GA)

Benjamin F. Payton, President
Tuskegee University (AL)

Beverley J. Pitts, President
University of Indianapolis (IN)

G. David Pollick, President
Birmingham-Southern College (AL)

John B. Simpson, President
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Robert G. Templin, Jr., President
Northern Virginia Community College

John D. Welty, President
California State University, Fresno

Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran, President
Kalamazoo College (MI)

Michael K. Young, President
The University of Utah

Term Ending June 30, 2011

Edward L. Ayers, President
University of Richmond (VA)

Erik J. Bitterbaum, President
College at Cortland, State University of New York

Robert A. Brown, President
Boston University (MA)

Grant H. Cornwell, President
College of Wooster (OH)

Brady J. Deaton, Chancellor
University of Missouri

Elson S. Floyd, President
Washington State University

Robert M. Franklin, President
Morehouse College (GA)

Edward Lee Gorsuch, President
City University of Seattle (WA)

Marvalene Hughes, President
Dillard University (LA)

Marvin Krislov, President
Oberlin College (OH)

John V. Lombardi, President
Louisiana State University System

James E. Lyons, Secretary
Maryland Higher Education Commission

Mary E. Lyons, President
University of San Diego (CA)

Julianne Malveaux, President
Bennett College for Women (NC)

Sally Mason, President
The University of Iowa

Gail O. Mellow, President
LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

Leon Richards, Chancellor
Kapi'olani Community College (HI)

Charles W. Sorensen, Chancellor
University of Wisconsin-Stout

Anthony S. Tricoli, President
Georgia Perimeter College

Term Ending June 30, 2012

James A. Ammons, President
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Jack Bermingham, President
Highline Community College (WA)

Linda P. Brady, Chancellor
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Charles L. Currie, SJ, President
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (DC)

Lewis M. Duncan, President
Rollins College (FL)

Jonathan A. Kaplan, President
Walden University (MN)

David W. Leebron, President
William Marsh Rice University (TX)

Alberto Maldonado-Ruiz, Chancellor
Universidad del Este (PR)

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, President
Bryn Mawr College (PA)

John W. Miller, President
Central Connecticut State University

G. P. "Bud" Peterson, President
Georgia Institute of Technology

Gary A. Ransdell, President
Western Kentucky University

Herman J. Saatkamp, President
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

David A. Sam, President
Elgin Community College (IL)

Suzanne Shipley, President
Shepherd University (WV)

Debora Spar, President
Barnard College (NY)

Carolyn Williams, President
Bronx Community College, City University of New York

Special Appointments

Maria Harper-Marinick, Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs
Maricopa County Community College District (AZ)