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College President Nominated to the AASCU Board of Directors
AASCU an advocate and guardian for public higher education TRENTON, N.J. (January 15, 2008) — Dr. George A. Pruitt, president of Thomas Edison State College, has accepted a nomination to serve on the Board of Directors for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) for a three-year term beginning in 2008.AASCU represents more than 400 public colleges, universities and systems of higher education throughout the United States and its territories. AASCU schools enroll more than three million students, or 55 percent of the enrollment at all public four-year institutions.
Members of the AASCU work to extend higher education to all citizens. Access is a hallmark of those AASCU institutions, colleges and universities that seek to serve students who traditionally have been underrepresented in higher education as well as those who are first generation college students. These institutions work for the public good through education and engagement, thereby improving the lives of people in their community, their region and their state.
“I am honored to be nominated to serve on the AASCU Board and by so doing to contribute to its work on quality assurance in American postsecondary education,” said Pruitt. “I look forward to being an advocate for public higher education and the students we serve and to influence public policy and regulations on behalf of the work of our member colleges and universities.”
Pruitt also serves as a director of Sun National Bank; member of the Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation (SEEDCO), New York; member of the Board of Trustees, Rider University; and member of the Board Trustees of The Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Pruitt has been president of Thomas Edison State College since 1982 and is the past chairman of the Mercer County Chamber of Commerce, Trenton, N.J.; a member of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, United States Department of Education. He has consulted widely in business and government, as well as within the higher education community and has served in an advisory capacity to four secretaries of education under three presidents of both parties.
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