Dr. George Boggs Named to Phi Theta Kappa Board of Directors
Dr. George Boggs, President and CEO of the American
Association of Community Colleges (AACC), has been elected to
Phi Theta Kappa's Board
of Directors. Dr. Boggs' appointment was announced by Phi Theta
Kappa Executive Director Rod Risley, during the recent AACC Annual Convention
in Long Beach, California. Dr. Boggs replaces former AACC President and
CEO Dr. David Pierce on the Phi Theta Kappa Board.
Phi Theta Kappa's
Board of Directors is comprised of seven members who serve as fiduciary
trustees, establish policy, and provide strategic direction for the organization.
"We are extremely pleased that Dr. Boggs will serve as a member
of Phi Theta Kappa's Board of Directors," Risley said. "His support of our
efforts to provide opportunities for academic recognition and honors
programming will be invaluable assets to our organization."
"As
Phi Theta Kappa moves forward into a new era of addressing the most pressing
needs of all community college students, we are gratified that we can rely
on Dr. Boggs' leadership and expertise. His predecessors at AACC, Dr. David
Pierce and Dr. Dale Parnell, also served as members of our Board of Directors,
and we are indeed fortunate that our strong ties to AACC will continue with
Dr. Boggs' appointment."
Prior to joining the AACC staff, Dr.
Boggs served as faculty member, division chair and associate dean of instruction
at Butte College in Oroville, California. For 15 years, he was the superintendent
and president of Palomar College in San Marcos, California.
He has
served on committees of the National Research Council and the National
Science Foundation.
Dr. Boggs earned a bachelor's degree in
chemistry from Ohio State University, a master's degree in chemistry from
the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. in educational
administration from the University of Texas.
From its Washington,
D.C., headquarters, the AACC represents more than 1,100 associate degree-granting
institutions and some 12 million students.
Phi Theta Kappa
International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, is the largest
honor society in American higher education with 1,200 chapters on two-year
and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany,
the Republic of Palau, the British Virgin Islands and U.S. territorial
possessions. More than two million students have been inducted since its
founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
