Dr. Eric Reno

Brief Bio of Dr. Eric Reno

President
Northeast Lakeview College
Alamo Community College District

Eric Reno brings over 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. His teaching areas have included composition, literature, and film - and graduate courses in higher education. 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 is President of the Higher Education Council of San Antonio. He has recently been awarded the title of Honorary Commander of the 12th Flying Training Wing at Randolph AFB, and appointed as a member of the newly formed San Antonio Military-Community Council. Nationally he serves as President of the College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS).

He received the Colorado Community College President 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, a retired elementary school teacher, and they have three children: Patrick, age 26 and a graduate student at the University of Nebraska; and Amanda and Alaina, age 19 and sophomores in college.