Doris Rousey
Contact: Ann Hatch
214-378-1819;
ahatch@dcccd.edu
For immediate release — Aug. 30, 2016
News brief
(DALLAS) — Doris Rousey, director of strategic initiatives for the Dallas County Community College District, has been selected to receive the third annual Jesse Jones Leadership Award from the North Texas Community College Consortium. The award will be presented during NTCCC’s 22nd annual fall leadership conference on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Gainesville at North Central Texas College, which is hosting the event.
“We are excited to award the third annual Jesse Jones Leadership Award to Doris Rousey during our annual conference this year,” said Dr. Christine Hubbard, NTCCC’s president. “The award is named in honor of the consortium’s second leader, Jesse Jones, who retired from NTCCC in 2014.”
Recipients are nominated by NTCCC board members and recognize contributions made to her or his college and/or to the consortium in the areas of outstanding leadership; dedicated service; and excellence in communication, cooperation and collaboration. The two previous honorees were Jones, president emeritus of NTCCC, and Bill Coppola, president of the Tarrant County College Southeast Campus.
Rousey, who has worked at DCCCD for 10 years, said, “I was pleasantly surprised to be offered this recognition. My recent work expanding opportunities to our young students through dual credit and early college high school programs — as well as providing guided pathways to all of our students, taking them to the university or into the workplace — is very dear to my heart.”
She added, “Any accomplishments are shared by my many colleagues at DCCCD and our K-12 and university partners. I thank NTCCC for the opportunities that are offered in these areas and many more; they nurture partnerships, promote professional learning communities and change educational opportunity.”
Rousey is one of three presenters during the conference for a session titled “AACU GEMs Pathways Project.” She will be joined by Joe Butler, associate vice president of academic outreach for Collin College, and Celia Williamson, associate vice president for enrollment at the University of North Texas.
Rousey currently is involved with several system-level projects in Dallas County, including DCCCD’s partnership with the Dallas Independent School District to open eight new collegiate academies this fall — the first day of school was Monday, Aug. 22. The new collegiate academies will become career and technical education (or CTE) early college high schools where students can earn certificates and associate degrees in 14 different pathways.
The DCCCD administrator worked for AT&T Bell Labs as a systems engineer before she became an instructional design coordinator and project manager for the Houston Community College system. Rousey joined Brookhaven College, part of the DCCCD system, in 2006 as executive dean of mathematics and sciences, where she also opened the office of educational partnerships in 2014. As executive dean of educational partnerships, she developed partnerships and managed the Brookhaven College Early College High School, dual credit programs and university transfer/articulation.
Rousey’s experience in four-year dual credit alignments and university transfer pathways brought her to DCCCD’s system office in downtown Dallas, where she works on strategic initiatives for the district. Rousey earned her master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UT-Arlington.
For more information, contact Ann Hatch in the DCCCD office of public and governmental affairs at 214-378-1819 or at
ahatch@dcccd.edu.
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