Embry-Riddle Chancellor Receives UAA Award

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UAA Presents Highest Award to Embry-Riddle Chancellor Thomas Connolly

Daytona Beach, Fla., Oct. 31, 2007 -- The University Aviation Association (UAA) recently presented its highest award, the President’s Trophy, to Dr. Thomas Connolly, chancellor of the Daytona Beach campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Awarded annually, the President’s Trophy honors significant leadership in the UAA. Dr. Connolly has served as president of the UAA, as an elected member of the UAA Board of Trustees, and in 1990 received the UAA Wheatley Award for outstanding contributions to aviation education.

The President’s Trophy was presented during the UAA’s 2007 Fall Education Conference held Oct. 17-20 at San Jose State University, Calif.

“I’m deeply honored to receive this prestigious award,” Dr. Connolly said. “It symbolizes the successful long-term partnership of Embry-Riddle and the UAA as we work together to meet the changing needs of the aviation industry and address the challenges of the 21st century.”

As a teacher, author, curriculum developer, and administrator, Dr. Connolly has been involved in aviation education for over 35 years. On the national level he has served as a visiting team chair for the Council on Aviation Accreditation (CAA) and as a trustee for the CAA and Women in Aviation, International.

Previously, Dr. Connolly received the 1989 FAA Administrator’s Championship Award for excellence in aviation education; the 1995 National Aeronautics Association’s Brewer Trophy for significant contributions of an enduring value to aviation and space education; and the 2000 National Congress on Aviation and Aerospace Education Crown Circle Award for extraordinary accomplishments as a leader in aerospace education.

He joined Embry-Riddle in 1973 as an assistant professor and has served as chair of the Flight Training Dept., chair of the Aeronautical Science Dept., dean of Aviation Technology, interim chancellor, and International Visiting Professor of Aviation at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. Currently he holds the Embry-Riddle Presidential Endowed Chair in Aviation.

The University Aviation Association is the voice of collegiate aviation education to its members, the industry, government, and the general public. Through the collective expertise of its members, the nonprofit UAA plays a pivotal role in the advancement of degree-granting aviation programs that represent all segments of the aviation industry. The UAA has more than 625 members, including 100 accredited colleges and universities.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.