Performance
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The CCLP was honored by the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities in 2005 with the Mirabeau B. Lamar Medal for its impact on the leadership of higher education in Texas and across the nation. This is the first time in the Association's history that a curriculum program has received this award.
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The CCLP has developed a major endowment, providing support for CCLP students and faculty.
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In his study for the American Association of Community Colleges, President Lee Betts found that the Texas CCLP ranked first nationally for its qualitative impact on American community colleges. The Texas program received more votes from college presidents than all other university programs combined.
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The Community College Leadership Program has produced more community college chancellors, presidents, and vice presidents than any other university program in the nation. In her 1990 study, Noel (Virginia Tech University) found that while 4.4% of the nation's community college administrators were UT-CCLP graduates, almost 10% of the nation's presidents, vice presidents and deans were UT-CCLP graduates.
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The Community College Leadership Program has also produced more university professors with community college specialties than any other university program.
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The CCLP is one of the most diverse graduate programs in the nation, receiving recognition by Black Issues in Higher Education (July, 1993) as an exemplary national program for its record of success in preparing minority leaders for American colleges.
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Community College Week (July 19, 1993) also recognized CCLP for its unparalleled record of success in preparing women and minorities for national leadership positions.
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Community College Week (September 23, 1996) featured the CCLP in a cover story examining the Program's 50-year reputation of excellence in preparing some of the most influential community college presidents in the nation.
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Community College Week (July 19, 2004) highlighted CCLP's 60th Anniversary, documenting its unparalleled record of success in producing well-respected leaders for American community colleges.
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Recent feature articles in Hispanic Outlook (2003) and Community College Week (July 19 and August 2, 2004) document CCLP's national reputation as exemplary in preparing the next generation of college leaders
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A number of CCLP graduates serve in nationally prominent leadership roles, including George R. Boggs, President and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges; Gerardo de los Santos, President and CEO of the League for Innovation in the Community College; Kay McClenney, Director, Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE); Byron McClenney, Director, Lumina-funded Achieving the Dream Project; and Evelyn Waiwaiole, Director of the Ford Foundation's Bridges to Opportunity Project.
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During the past 15 years, CCLP has received generous extramural research and development financial support. Funding agencies include the U.S. Department of Education, FIPSE, NIE, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Exxon Foundation, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, and currently major grants from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the MetLife Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. In 2001, the Houston Endowment established a $1 million scholarship endowment for CCLP graduate students, named in honor of Jesse H. Jones, the Foundation's founder. In addition to the several dozen distinguished research awards from national organizations in the past decade, three CCLP faculty (Roueche, Roueche, and Delco) have received AACC's National Leadership Award, the highest honor in the community college world.
