Steve Smith, vice president of instruction and workforce education at El Paso Community College, received the 2018 Carl M. “Cheesie” Nelson Administrative Leadership Award from the Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC) at the TACC Summer Conference in Corpus Christi. The "Cheesie" Nelson Award recognizes administrators with outstanding leadership qualities who have made a significant impact on higher education. Read more from the El Paso Herald-Post.
Odessa College, Palo Alto College (Alamo Colleges), and San Jacinto College were named finalists for the 2019 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Read the press release announcing the 10 finalists for the national award. To determine the winner(s) of the prize, Aspen, with other community college experts, will conduct site visits to each finalist institution and will collect information on employment and earnings outcomes and learning assessment practices.
