Award for Advocacy of Independent Higher Education

 

The NAICU Advocacy Award was established to recognize individuals outside of academe who have championed the cause of independent higher education. Whether in government, business, or philanthropy, the recipient of this award has provided leadership, established resources, or enacted policy at the state or national level that recognized the role of independent colleges and universities in serving public purposes. No single contribution makes one eligible to receive the award, it recognizes a lifetime of service, initiative, and determination. 
 

Previous Recipients 

2022	Lois Dickson Rice, "Mother of the Pell Grant" (Posthumously) Award Acepted by Ambassador Susan Rice (News Release)  (Amb. Susan Rice Remarks)
2020-21	No award given
2019	Hon. Michael E. Capuano (D-MA), Member, U.S. House of Representatives and  Hon. Robert W. Goodlatte, Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-VA) Founding co-chairs of the Congressional Independent Colleges Caucus. (News Release)
2015-18	No award given
2014	Hon. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Member, U.S. Senate (News Release)
2013	Arnold L. Mitchem, President, Council for Opportunity in Education (News Release)
2012	United Technologies Corporation, accepted by UTC Chairman and CEO Louis Chenevert (News Release)
2011	Hon. Timothy H. Bishop (D-NY), Member, U.S. House of Representatives (News Release)
2010	Hon. George Miller (D-CA), Member, U.S. House of Representatives
2009	Hon. John W. Warner (R-VA), Member, U.S. Senate (News Release)
2008	Hon. Ralph Regula (R-OH), Member, U.S. House of Representatives (News Release)
2007	Loren Pope, College Placement Counselor and Author, Colleges that Change Lives
2006	Hon. Philip S. English (R-PA), Member, U.S. House of Representatives (News Release)
2005	Hon. Thomas H. Kean, President, Drew University (NJ); Chair, The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Former Governor, State of New Jersey (News Release)
2004	Hon. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), Member, U.S. Senate (News Release)
2003	Hon. Dale E. Kildee (D-MI), Member, U.S. House of Representatives (News Release)
2002	Hon. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Member, U.S. House of Representatives (News Release)
2001	Hon. David R. Obey (D-WI), Member, U.S. House of Representatives (News Release)
2000	Hon. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Member, U.S. Senate (News Release)
1999	Hon. Claiborne Pell (D-RI) , Member, U.S. Senate (News Release)
1998	Hon. William Roth (R-DE), Member, U.S. Senate
1997	Hon. Richard Riley, U.S. Secretary of Education
1996	NAICU Member President’s for their Advocacy in Restoring Proposed Cuts to the Federal Student Aid Programs
1995	Hon. Robert Stafford (R-VT), Member, U.S. Senate
1994	Hon. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Member, U.S. Senate
1993	Hon. Terry Sanford (D-NC), Member, U.S. Senate

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