ACE Lifetime Achievement Award

 

​​​The ACE Lifetime Achievement Award was established by ACE to honor and recognize a college or university president/chancellor (current or emeritus) who throughout their career, has shown an un-wavering commitment to higher education and the greater good of higher education. The award recognizes exceptional leaders who have dedicated their careers to championing the cause for higher education and have been visionary about strategic challenges and opportunities and have seized opportunities to advance higher education.

 

2020 Winner: Janet Napolitano

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​P​ast Winners

ACE has been bestowing the Lifetime Achievement Award since 2012, when Ruth J. Simmons, president of Brown University, became the first recipient.

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2018: Freeman Hrabowski, president, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

2016: Brice Harris, chancellor, California Community Colleges

2015: Norm Francis, president, Xavier University of Louisiana

2014: Mary Sue Coleman, president, University of Michigan

2013: Juliet V. Garcia, president, University of Texas at Brownsville

2012: Ruth J. Simmons, president, Brown University

 
 
 

This award is not open for public submission. Please contact mswarna@acenet.edu with any questions.

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