Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award

2023 Stephen Jacbson, SUNY Buffalo

Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award was instituted by UCEA in 1992 for the purpose of recognizing senior professors in the field of educational administration whose professional lives have been characterized by extraordinary commitment, excellence, leadership, productivity, generosity, and service. At the same time, the award celebrates the remarkable pioneering life of Roald F. Campbell, whose distinguished career spanned many years and exemplified these characteristics. The award consists of a unique bronze eagle presented at the UCEA Convention.

The criteria used in selecting recipients include:

• longtime distinguished service as teacher/researcher in the field of educational administration;
• superior contributions to the field’s body of knowledge;
• recognized leadership efforts to improve the field, especially the preparation of educational administrators and/or professors of educational administration.

Nominations are welcome from faculty member(s) of UCEA member institutions and partner institutions. Nominations should include electronic copies of the following:

• the candidate’s curriculum vitae;
• a letter addressing the contributions of the nominee relative to one or more of the selection criteria;
• support letters from individuals who have been directly mentored by the nominee, and/or individuals who can attest to the nominee’s mentoring strengths, are strongly encouraged.
• A UCEA committee appointed by the Executive Director will review and evaluate the nominees. This committee will reserve the right to present this award to multiple candidates on any given year, or conversely, not to present this award should nominees not fully meet the selection criteria.

Please email electronic copies of all nomination materials to uceaawards@gmail.com with the title of the award in the subject line. 

The deadline for nominations is August 25, 2024.

Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

2023    Stephen Jacobson, SUNY Buffalo

2022    Catherine A. Lugg, Rutgers University

2021    Michael Dantley, Miami University

2020    Kofi Lomotey, Western Carolina University

2019    Diana Pounder, University of Utah

2018    Pedro Reyes, University of Texas at Austin

             Daniel L. Duke, University of Virginia

2017      Carolyn M. Shields, Wayne State University

2016      Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University

2015      Gary M. Crow, Indiana University

2014      Philip Hallinger, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

2013      Robert Crowson, Peabody College – Vanderbilt University

2012      Kenneth Arthur Leithwood, University of Toronto – Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

2011      Joseph F. Murphy, Vanderbilt University

2010      Rodney Ogawa, University of California-Santa Cruz

2009      Karen Seashore Louis, University of Minnesota

2008      Catherine Marshall, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2007      Cecil Miskel, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Retired)

2006      Jerry Starrat, Boston College

2005      Flora Ida Ortiz, University of California, Riverside

2004      Martha McCarthy, Indiana University

2003      Wayne Hoy, The Ohio State University

2002      William L. Boyd, Penn State

2001      Barbara Jackson, Fordham University

2000      Luvern L. Cunningham, University of Akron

1999      No Award

1998      Norman J. Boyan, University of California-Santa Barbara

1997      Donald J. Willower, The Pennsylvania State University

1996      Edwin M. Bridges, Stanford University

1995      Richard A. Schmuck, The University of Oregon

1994      David L. Clark, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1993      Jack A. Culbertson, The Ohio State University

1992      Daniel E. Griffiths, New York University