The Chief Executive Leadership Award

The Chief Executive Leadership Award recognizes CASE member institutional heads, presidents, chancellors, system heads or other campus chief executive officers for outstanding efforts in promoting and supporting education and institutional advancement.

Nominees for this award must demonstrate the ability to:

• Actively support advancement
• Create a vision and inspire others
• Establish a positive image for his or her institution while leading it to higher levels of success
• Increase his or her institution's stature in the community
• Encourage innovation and risk-taking among employees

Nomination and Selection Process

Nomination deadline

The deadline for CASE Asia-Pacific will be Feb. 3, 2012. Contact your district chair or CASE Europe for additional deadlines.

Begin or continue your nomination

Nomination instructions

In order to be considered, all nominations must be submitted online. Do not send supporting materials such as pictures or news and magazine clippings with your nomination. Each nomination must include the following:

• A nominating letter describing the nominee's qualifications, including information describing the individual's efforts to promote and support education; demonstrate support of the advancement profession; create a vision and inspire others; and establish a positive image for the institution. Ideally a nominating letter should be no longer than three pages.
• Nominee's professional or related vita
• Three supporting letters endorsing the nomination. Ideally a supporting letter should be no longer than two pages.

Examples of letters from previous winners

Judges

Each district and CASE Europe appoint a committee to review nominations and select an annual winner. In the absence of an appointed board of trustees in CASE Asia-Pacific, nominations from that region are reviewed by an awards subcommittee, which is made up of members of the Committee on the Profession of the CASE Board of Trustees.

Selection process

CASE Asia-Pacific: after the Feb. 3, 2012 deadline, the awards subcommittee reviews all nominations and votes to select a recipient. The Committee on the Profession then reviews the selection at the spring CASE Board of Trustees meeting. The board of trustees approves the winner of the award.

CASE districts and CASE Europe have their own process for reviewing nominations and choosing a winner.

Notification

CASE Asia-Pacific: after the board meeting, CASE notifies the nominator who submitted the winning candidate. A letter from CASE's president is sent to the recipient. Letters are also sent to the nominators of unsuccessful candidates.

CASE districts and CASE Europe have their own process and timetable for notification.

Award presentation

District Chief Executive Leadership Awards are presented at annual district conferences. CASE Europe and CASE Asia-Pacific present their awards at a time and place designated by each region.

2011 Chief Executive Leadership Award Winners

District I: Mary K. Grant, President, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
District II: James T. Harris III, President, Widener University (Pa.)
District III: Jack Hawkins, Chancellor, Troy University (Ala.)
District IV E. Joseph Savoie CEO Award: Ricardo Romo, President, University of Texas at San Antonio
District V: Matthew Allen Derr, Interim President, Antioch College (Ohio)
District VI: David L. Sallee, President, William Jewell College (Mo.), David Maxwell, President, Drake University (Iowa)
District VII: Daniel Y. Habuki, President of Soka University of America (Calif.)
District VIII: Mary Cullinan, President, Southern Oregon University
CASE Asia-Pacific: Paul Johnson, Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University (Australia)
CASE Europe: Professor Sir Richard Trainor KBE, Principal, King's College London

2010 Chief Executive Leadership Award Winners

District I:Bruce Shaw, Director, Shady Hill School
District II: Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Instittute (N.Y.)
District III: Donald R. Eastman III, President, Eckerd College (Fla.)
District IV E. Joseph Savoie Chief Executive Leadership Award: James E. Cofer Sr., President, University of Louisiana at Monroe
District V: David Sweet, President, Youngstown State University (Ohio)
District VI: John F. Carney III, Chancellor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
District VII: James K. Scott, President, Punahou School (Hawai'i)
District VIII: Preston Pulliams, District President, Portland Community College (Ore.)
CASE Europe Leadership Award: Brett Wigdortz, Chief Executive Officer, Teach First (United Kingdom)
CASE Asia-Pacific: Theodore S. Faunce, Headmaster, Chinese International School, (Hong Kong)

2009 Chief Executive Leadership Award Winners

District I: Sister Joan Magnetti, Headmistress, Convent of the Sacred Heart (Conn.)
District II: Stuart Rabinowitz, President, Hofstra University (N.Y.)
District III: Charles W. Steger, President, Virginia Tech
District IV E. Joseph Savoie Chief Executive Leadership Award: James M. Simmons, President, Lamar University (Texas)
District V: Robert A. Wild, President, Marquette University (Wis.)
District VI: Edward H. Hammond, President, Fort Hayes State University (Kansas)
Dean L. Hubbard, President, Missouri State University
District VII: Laura E. Skandera Trombley, President, Pitzer College (Calif.)
District VIII: Harold Dengerink, Chancellor, Washington State University
CASE Europe Leadership Award: Sir Timothy O'Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh
CASE Asia-Pacific: Paul Thomas, Vice-Chancellor, University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia)

2008 Chief Executive Leadership Award Winners

CASE District I: Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University
CASE District II: Robert A. Scott, President, Adelphi University
CASE District III: Henry N. Tisdale, President, Claflin University
CASE District IV E. Joseph Savoie Chief Executive Leadership Award: Jake Schrum, President, Southwestern University
CASE District V: Michael Rao, President, Central Michigan University
CASE District VI: Ben Ernst, President, Ranken Technical College
CASE District VII: Jerry Farley, President, Washburn University
CASE District VIII: Irene Lewis, President and CEO, SAIT Polytechnic
CASE Europe CASE Europe Leadership Award: Sir Eric Anderson, Provost, Eton College
CASE Asia- Pacific: Paul Sheahan, Headmaster, Melbourne Grammar School

For more information or questions, contact dsa@case.org.