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Brief Bio of Dr. Eric Reno Eric Reno brings thirty years of community college education to his position as the president of the Northeast Lakeview College, the fifth and newest college of the Alamo Community College District. Previous to arriving at ACCD in 2004 he was president of Red Rocks Community College in Lakewood, CO. He is a first generation college student, entering a community college after four years in the Air Force – Lackland AFB, Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, and three years at RAF Chicksands in Shefford, England. He earned a B.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University, an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University, and his doctorate in higher education from Florida Atlantic. Prior to becoming a community college educator he spent five years in corporate life with United Air Lines in San Francisco. He began his teaching career at Broward Community College in Ft. Lauderdale, FL – teaching part-time and leaving as Vice President of Academic Affairs seventeen years later. His teaching areas have included composition, literature, and film – and graduate courses in higher education at Florida International University and Colorado State University. He also has had significant involvement in international education as a consultant in Malaysia and Singapore, and as a coordinator of programs in London and Cambridge, England. In Colorado he was on the boards of the Wings Over the Rockies Aviation and Space Museum, the Denver West Chamber, the Arvada Economic Development Association (AEDA), the Jefferson Economic Council (JEC), and chaired the Gateway District of the Boy Scouts of America. Currently he serves on the boards of the North East Area Business Council of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, the Randolph Metrocom Chamber of Commerce, the Aerospace Museum of Texas, and the Higher Education Council of San Antonio. Nationally he serves as president-elect of the College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Commission on Global Education. He received the Colorado Community CollegePresident of the Year Award from the State Student Advisory Council in 2001 and 2004, and in 2002 received the Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction from Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges. When he left Red Rocks Community College in 2004 the RRCC Foundation funded a Teaching Chair in his name. Eric is married to Patricia, an elementary school teacher, and they have three children: Patrick, age 24 and a student at the University of Kansas; and Amanda and Alaina, age 18 and freshmen in college. |
