NOMINATIONS – NEA HIGHER EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025
Calling all NEA higher educators: Nominations are open for the annual NEA Higher Educator of the Year Award! The 2025 nomination application may be found here:
NEA Higher Educator of the Year Award 2025 Nomination Application
Deadline: March 30, 2025
The award recognizes the NEA postsecondary education professional who continually engages in outstanding student-centered professional practice, exemplary national/state/local labor-based advocacy, and robust community participation. This award is presented to an NEA higher education member who demonstrates outstanding accomplishments in all three areas.
Please share the nomination information widely with all of your NEA higher educator colleagues. After a record-breaking number of nominations last year, we are looking for even greater participation this year.
NCHE Elections, Endorsements, and Proposed Changes to NCHE Constitution
Elections for NCHE office will be held at the NCHE Regular Annual Meeting on March 13, 2025, 1:30pm to 4:30pm EDT. This meeting is held in conjunction with the 2025 NEA Higher Education Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
The following four positions on the NCHE Executive Committee are open for nomination of elected candidates:
- NCHE Secretary (1-year term)
- NCHE Membership Chair (3-year term)
- NCHE At-Large Member (2 seats, each for a 3-year term)
Candidates may be nominated during the first session of the March 13 NCHE Regular Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. The first session begins at 1:30pm EDT. Voting will take place at the end of the meeting’s first session and will continue for 60 minutes. Should a runoff election be necessary, it will be held Friday, March 14, 2025, also in Philadelphia.
In addition to its own elections, NCHE will conduct voting for endorsement of NEA candidates. Endorsements also will be considered at the March 13 meeting.
Each candidate for both election and endorsement is permitted to submit a written statement of not more than one side of one 8.5x11 piece of paper and may not include links to other information. Statements provided by Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 11:59pm EDT, will be provided to meeting attendees in hard copy. Additionally, those submitted by the deadline will be posted to the NCHE webpage. Statements should be submitted jointly to NCHE Elections and Endorsements Committee Chair Suzanne Sublette and Nancy O’Brien)
Further, candidates for election and endorsement will be permitted to speak to NCHE meeting attendees during the first session of the meeting for no more than 3 minutes each. Candidates may choose to give statements themselves, or send a video to Suzanne Sublette and Nancy O’Brien by Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 11:59pm EDT, or have someone present give their statement on their behalf.
Voting will be conducted on endorsements for NEA Executive Committee at this meeting. Candidates for NEA at-large positions on the NEA Board of Directors may request endorsement, provide a statement, and give a statement under the same guidelines and candidates for NEA Executive Committee. However, voting for NEA at-large candidates will take place at the NCHE Summer Meeting held in conjunction with the NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly. The NCHE Summer Meeting is scheduled for July 2, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. Further guidance will be provided at a later date for candidates planning to attend that meeting.
If you have questions about the NCHE elections and endorsements process, please direct them to Suzanne Sublette.
Candidate Statements
Statements from Candidates for NCHE Secretary
Statements from Candidates for NCHE At-Large
Statements from Candidates Seeking Endorsement for NEA Executive Committee
Statements from Candidates Seeking Endorsement for NEA for At-Large Education Support Professional – 3 Year Term
NCHE Constitution
In addition to elections and endorsements, NCHE will consider changes to the NCHE constitution that bring it up to date with current practices and, where appropriate, current language and approaches used by NEA. These changes may be reviewed in this version of the NEA Constitution. Download a copy of the proposed changes here.
Join NCHE Now! 2024-25 Membership Drive
It’s time to renew NCHE memberships and recruit new members! NCHE welcomes all NEA higher education members as “individual members” with voting rights in NCHE, as well as “organizational members,” which are NEA higher education affiliates that join NCHE, also with voting rights. NCHE also welcomes non-higher-ed NEA members and HQ and affiliate staff as associate members.
Use this link – Join NCHE Now! – to pay by credit card for any of the NCHE membership categories. Credit card payment through this link is by far the best option for NCHE record-keeping and for the timeliness of membership processing. If check payment is the only option, NCHE welcomes checks accompanied by paper forms:
NEA National Leadership Summit: Higher Ed in the House!
Let’s see NCHE and NEA Higher Education strongly represented on the agenda and among the participants of the NEA National Leadership Summit! Follow this link – NEA National Leadership Summit - for continually updated information on this dynamic professional development event, to be held in Detroit, MI, March 7-9, 2025.
NCHE Executive Committee
Marcia Mackey, Ph.D., NCHE Vice President
