Noftsinger Award
The John B. Noftsinger, Jr. Award for Service and Leadership
The Association for Collaborative Leadership bestows the John B. Noftsinger, Jr. Award for Service and Leadership upon an individual who has contributed significantly over the years to support and strengthen cooperation among institutions of higher education and between those institutions and their partners in the community and in the corporate and foundation worlds. In doing so, we recognize the many years of service the individual has devoted to the collaborative enterprise in order to help higher education be responsive, innovative, and caring.
The most recent John B. Noftsinger Awards were presented in 2017 to Neal Abraham, Five College Consortium, and Barbara McFadden, Big Ten Academic Alliance, in appreciation for their many years of service to high education and to collaboration.
Prior to that, Susan Palmer, Executive Director of the Five Colleges of Ohio, received the award in 2016 (below, right), and Nicola V. Beltz and Lawrence G. Dotolo (below, left) were the 2012 recipients of the award.
Brochure for The John B. Noftsinger, Jr. Award for Service and Leadership
Previous ACL Noftsinger Award Recipients:
2003 Charlie Bedford, University Center in Georgia
2003 Mary K. Ellis, the New Orleans Consortium
2003 Fritz Grupe, Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley
2003 Richard (Dick) Konkel, Southeast Florida Education Consortium
2003 Stan Love, the Kansas City Regional Council for Higher Education
2003 Hank Munroe, the New Hampshire College and University Council
2003 Lewis Patterson, Council for Institutional Leadership and Kansas City Regional Council
2003 Jackie Pritzen, Five Colleges, Incorporated
2003 Larry Rose, Kansas City Regional Council for Higher Education
2003 Dean Tollefson, Union of Independent Colleges of Art
2003 Neil Wylie, Council of Presidents of New England Land-Grant Universities
2005 Allan Watson, Alliance for Higher Education
2006 Rosalie M. Gates, Cooperating Raleigh Colleges
2007 Alice Brown, Appalachian Colleges Association
2009 Lorna Peterson, Five Colleges, Incorporated
2011 John B. Noftsinger, Jr., James Madison University, Virginia
2012 Lawrence G. Dotolo, Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education
2012 Nicola Vocola Beltz, Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education
2013 Wayne Anderson, Associated Colleges of the South
2016 Susan Palmer, Five Colleges of Ohio
2017 Neal Abraham, Five College Consortium
2017 Barbara McFadden, Big Ten Academic Alliance