Dr. Walker-Griffea has been serving as the first woman and first African American president of Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan. She has significant experience in community college leadership, having held academic and administrative posts at schools across the country.
Satrom teaches non-native speakers of English in the English Language for Academic Purposes program at Montgomery College in Maryland. The American Association of Community Colleges has recognized her for her innovative project documenting experiences of immigrant and refugee students.
Monica Parrish Trent has been selected to be the next provost at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania, and Sarah Willie-LeBreton, a professor of sociology at Swarthmore College in suburban Philadelphia, will be the next provost of the highly rated liberal arts institution.
The three winners who will receive $500,000 to support their academic initiatives are Marie Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, DeRionne Pollard, president of Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and Barbara R. Snyder, president of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
