克兰福德, NJ – UCNJ365bet 新泽西州联合县 is proud to announce that two members of the college community are receiving 2024 Northeast Regional Awards from the Association of 社区 College 受托人 (ACCT). 玛丽米. 齐默尔曼, Chair of the College’s Board of 州长 and a member of the College’s Board of 受托人, is receiving the Trustee Leadership Award and Dr. Michele Rotunda, Associate Professor of 历史, is receiving the 教师 Member Award. 夫人. 齐默尔曼博士. Rotunda will formally accept the awards in October at the Regional Awards Presentation during the 55th Annual ACCT Leadership Congress in Seattle. By receiving the Northeast Region awards, both recipients are eligible to receive the national M. Dale Ensign Trustee Leadership Award and William H. Meardy 教师 Member Award. The national winners will be named at the Leadership Congress.
夫人. 齐默尔曼, of Summit, has been a member of the UCNJ Boards since 2006. In 2023, she finished her term as Chair of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges (NJCCC) where she represented the community college trustees and students of all 18 of NJ’s two-year colleges. 夫人. 齐默尔曼 received the Women of Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Union County Commission on the Status of Women in 2019 and the Ronald D. Winthers Trustee Leadership Award from the NJCCC in 2024.
Dr. Rotunda is a dynamic educator who embraces experiential learning opportunities to bring history alive for her students. She serves as an advisor for the College’s 历史 Club and was integral in the development of the College’s history program. 2016年，博士. Rotunda received the UCNJ Neblett Prize for Educational Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Dr. 圆形大厅为她赢得了M.A. in history from Rutgers-Newark/NJIT Federated Program and her Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University. She is the author of A Drunkard’s Defense: Alcohol, 谋杀, and Medical Jurisprudence in Nineteenth-Century America.
“We are incredibly appreciative of these recognitions from ACCT. 夫人. 齐默尔曼博士. Rotunda are well-deserving recipients. 夫人. 齐默尔曼 is a deeply committed and dedicated board member. She loves our students and is a tireless advocate for them. Dr. Rotunda is a master teacher who inspires her students to learn and live history. We are proud to have them amongst our college community,” stated UCNJ’s President Dr. 玛格丽特•米. McMenamin.
The ACCT is a non-profit educational organization that represents more than 6500 elected and appointed trustees who govern more than 1200 community colleges, and over 11 million students, throughout the United States. The ACCT annually recognizes trustees and other community college leaders in each of its five regions for their contributions.
UCNJ是一所公立大学, comprehensive community college that provides quality, 负担得起的, accessible educational programs to the greater Union County region. It is the first of New Jersey’s 18 two-year colleges, serving both career-minded and transfer-oriented students since 1933. The College offers a wide variety of academic and extracurricular activities. UCNJ provides many experiential learning opportunities such as access to a Bloomberg 业务 Center, 创新中心, 和学生研究中心. 另外, students at UCNJ attend one of the top 10 community colleges in the country for 2025 as designated by the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program. 欲了解更多信息，请访问 www.科克大学.edu.
