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NCCEP Board Members
Ex-Officio
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Gerald P.
Beaulieu
Gerald P. Beaulieu has more than 40 years experience in senior level
financial management of nonprofit organizations. For 30 years, Mr.
Beaulieu led the financial operations of four District of Columbia
hospitals. He was at Georgetown University Hospital for 21 years, and
served as their Chief Financial Officer for ten years. For a decade, Mr.
Beaulieu served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of a
national membership organization of nearly 20,000 members with an annual
budget of $11 million.
Mr. Beaulieu has served on the Board of Directors for two regional
nonprofits related to health care for more than six years each. These
organizations with budgets approaching of $20 million have been
fortunate to have Mr. Beaulieu serve as Treasurer, Chair of the Finance
Committee and/or Chair at the Audit Committee.
Mr. Beaulieu is a native of New Hampshire. Mr. Beaulieu has a BA from
St. Mary’s Seminary & University and an MBA from George
Washington University. Mr. Beaulieu retired in August 2009 and resides
in Washington, D.C. He continues to serve as an active volunteer in the
community and enjoys traveling around the world.
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Bernard L.
Charles
Bernard L. Charles serves as Technical Assistant Consultant to the
National Science Foundation’s Systemic Initiative, establishing
partnerships and collaborations between schools, universities,
corporations, businesses and community-based organizations.
Charles previously served as Senior Executive with The McKenzie Group,
an educational consulting firm, and Senior Vice President of the Quality
Education for Minorities Network. Prior to those positions, he served
for 13 years as Senior Program Officer for the Carnegie Corporation of
New York. While at Carnegie, he directed a multi-million dollar national
program designed to increase the representation in science, mathematics
and engineering of African Americans, American Indians, Mexican
Americans, Puerto Ricans, women, and person with disabilities.
Charles is a former Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor, Chairman and
founder of the Department of Urban Teacher Education at Livingston
College, Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has been an adjunct
professor and guest lecturer at a number of universities, including
Columbia University, the University of Maine, and Harvard University. He has been at the
forefront of local, state and national dialogue and legislation on the
issue of empowerment of African American and other underrepresented
groups for more than thirty years. He served as a senior advisor to New
York Governor Mario Cuomo and chaired the New York State Advisory Board
on Black Affairs.
Charles holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from
Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, a Master of Science in Special
Education with a concentration in Behavioral Disorders from Yeshiva, and
a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New
York. He has chaired numerous boards and
commissions, including the National Center for Learning Disabilities
and the Public Education Association of New York. He also sits on the
National Advisory Board of the College Board’s Equity 2000
Project, and the National Board of Howard University’s Research
and Training Center for Access Rehabilitation
and Economic Opportunity.
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Amaury Nora,
Ed.D.
Dr. Amaury Nora is Professor of Higher Education and
Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education and Human
Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research has
focused on student persistence, engagement, and degree attainment, the
impact of psychosocial factors on academic and social integration in
college, and differential social support systems for undergraduates at
two- and four-year institutions.
Dr. Nora has been selected as an AERA Fellow (Class of 2010) by the
American Educational Research Association; appointed to the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board Think Tank on Developmental Education;
appointed to the AERA/NCES Think Tank to improve national databases
produced by the National Center for Education Statistics; named as
Senior Scholar for the American College Personnel Association (ACPA);
and nominated for the position of Vice-Chair of the Scientific Committee
for Europe and North America, Scientific Committees of the UNESCO Forum
on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge. Currently, he is the Chief
Editor for The Review of Higher Education, the
journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
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Laura
I. Rendón, Ph.D.
Chair
Laura I. Rendón is Professor of Higher Education in the College of
Education and Human
Development at the University of Texas-San Antonio. From 2005-2009,
Rendón served as Professor and Chair in the Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University,
College of Human Sciences. Her current research focuses on access,
retention and graduation of low-income, first-generation college
students and the transformation of teaching and learning to emphasize
wholeness and social justice.
Rendón earned a Ph.D. in higher education administration from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a M.A. in
counseling and guidance and psychology from Texas A&M
University-Kingsville (1975). She earned a B.A. in English and
journalism from the University
of Houston (1970), and holds an
associate of arts degree from San Antonio College. Rendón also attended
Laredo
Community
College.
Rendón is the author of Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy: Educating for
Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation. She is also
co-editor of Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color,
Educating a New Majority, and Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Higher
Education ASHE Reader. Her scholarly work on access and
student success has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
and the PBS documentary, The College Track. She has received
numerous awards including the ASHE Distinguished Service Award, and the
NASPA Latino Knowledge Community Outstanding Faculty Award. Rendón
has also been inducted into the Iowa Academy of Education.
Rendón is Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Council
for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP). She also serves on the
Board of Trustees for Naropa University. Rendón is past
president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE),
the nation’s premier scholarly organization focusing on higher
education research, and she has been a Fellow of the Fetzer
Institute.
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Sylvia Evans
Robinson
A seasoned professional with over twenty five years’ experience in
higher education administration and non-profit management, Sylvia Evans
Robinson currently serves as president of SER Associates, a management
consulting firm. Her previous positions included three years as
Executive Director and Assistant Vice President of the GED Testing
Service at the American Council on Education (ACE) and nine years as the
Executive Director of the Career Education Center at Georgetown University. Ms. Robinson was
previously the Executive Director of the American Heart
Association’s, Nation’s Capital Affiliate; Executive
Director of Rhode Island Children’s Crusade for Higher Education,
and Dean of the Class of 1986 at Wellesley College.
Ms. Robinson earned a bachelor’s degree in history from
Stanford University, a master’s degree in
education from Occidental
College, and took doctoral
courses in American Civilization at Brown University. In 2008, Ms. Robinson
received an honorary doctorate in business administration from Johnson
and Wales
University, where
she served on the Board of Trustees from 1993 to 2010. Other board
service included the Board of Directors for the National Association of
Colleges and Employers (NACE) and Leadership Rhode Island.
An avid student of excellence and leadership, Ms. Robinson participated
in the NACE Management Leadership Institute and the Center for Creative
Leadership’s Leadership at the Peak, Developing the Strategic
Leader and Leadership Development programs. She is a graduate of
Leadership Washington (1995) and Leadership Rhode Island (1988). Her
awards for community service include the 1996 Award for Excellence in
Non-Profit Management from the Washington Council of Agencies, the 1994
Distinguished Leadership Award for the National Association for
Community Leadership, and the 1993 “David E. Sweet Annual
Leadership Award” from Leadership Rhode Island.
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Ex-Officio
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Nathan
Monell, CAE
Executive Director, NCCEP
Nathan
Monell joined the National Council for Community
and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) as its executive director in January
of 2011. From 1996-2010 he was the Chief Executive Officer of Foster
Care Alumni of America, a national association of adults who experienced
foster care as children. Nathan is a career-long advocate, pushing for
reform in causes that are relevant to the lives of individuals who are
often marginalized by multiple life factors. For twenty-three years, he
has provided strategic leadership to organizations seeking to improve
the educational and employment outcomes of youth and adults, providing
mental health services for children and adults, offering health and
substance abuse prevention services, and connecting families to housing
and social supports.
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