Service to NACUBO Award Recipients

The Service to NACUBO Award recognizes outstanding individual contributions to NACUBO professional development programs and publications. View the award criteria and nomination requirements.

This award is supported in part by a generous sponsorship from Huron Consulting.

2023

Sherri Newcomb, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Sherri Newcomb, senior advisor to the senior vice president of business affairs/chief financial officer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, received the 2023 Service to NACUBO Award for her extensive contributions to the association. Newcomb served on NACUBO’s Board of Directors from 2016-2019, as well on as the Analytics Advisory Group, Technology Council, and meeting planning committees, among others.

2022

Archibald Asawa

Arch Asawa, Soka University of America

Archibald “Arch” Asawa, vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Soka University of America, received the 2022 Service to NACUBO Award. Asawa is a member of the NACUBO board of directors and a past board member and president of the Western Association of College and University Business Officers (WACUBO). He has lent his expertise to the NACUBO Fellows and New Business Officers Programs, among others, as well as to NACUBO content programming.

2021

Dawn Rhodes, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Dawn Rhodes, senior vice president and chief business and finance officer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, received the 2021 Service to NACUBO Award for her extensive contributions to the association’s professional development programs and publications. Rhodes has served on the NACUBO board and is active in the association’s professional development programs, including the NACUBO Fellows Program and Future Business Officers Program, and on the NACUBO Advisory Group on Leadership Diversity’s Committee on Leaders of Color.

2020

Maeesha Merchant, California Institute of the Arts

Maeesha Merchant, senior vice president, finance and operations, chief financial officer, and chief innovation officer at the California Institute of the Arts, has received the 2020 Service to NACUBO Award for her outstanding contributions to the association’s professional development programs. Merchant, who joined Cal Arts in 2017 and soon after participated in NACUBO’s New Business Officers (NBO) Program, has already served on NACUBO’s New Business Officers Alumni Panel, mentoring program, and program committees for the annual meeting and the Endowment and Debt Management Forum, where she also presented.

Merchant also has shared her expertise on the NACUBO in Brief podcast and in forthcoming microlearning offerings, and she serves on NACUBO’s new Advisory Group on Leadership Diversity.

2019

Edward A. Kania - Rollins College

Edward A. Kania, vice president of business and finance and treasurer at Rollins College (FL), received the Service to NACUBO Award for his numerous contributions to the association, including as a faculty member for the Future Business Officers Program and as a peer mentor for new business officers. He is a past member of the NACUBO Small Constituents Council and also is active in regional affiliates, serving as a past chair of EACUBO’s Small College Committee and a member of SACUBO’s Small Institutions Constituent Committee. Kania also has participated in NACUBO events, podcasts, and publications

2018

Corey Bradford

Corey S. Bradford - Prairie View A&M University

Corey S. Bradford Sr., senior vice president of business affairs at Prairie View A&M University (TX), received the Service to NACUBO Award for his numerous contributions to the association, including as a faculty member for the Future Business Officers Program and on the advisory committee for the 2016 National Profile of Higher Education Chief Business Officers. Bradford also has participated on the Comprehensive and Doctoral Institutions Council, and he conceptualized the Business of the University Conference, which his institution hosts in conjunction with NACUBO and its southern affiliate, SACUBO.

Listen to Corey Bradford’s CBO Speaks podcast, where he shares insights on growing into financial leadership, campus grown and deep mission-level investment in the broader civic community economic development.

2017

Brontè Burleigh-Jones - Dickinson College

2016

Charles Tegen - Clemson University

2015

Cynthia Teniente-Matson - Texas A&M University, San Antonio

2014

Ruth Johnston - University of Washington

2013

Dennis W. Reedy - Indiana University

2012

Award not presented

2011