Earlier today, the Ontario College Administrators Network – OCASA – presented its Doug Light Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Mary Preece.
Mary accepted the award at OCASA’s annual Leaders and Innovators Conference, where she was speaking as part of a Presidents’ Panel, answering questions about the future of our sector, the external environment we operate in, and philosophies and practices related to leadership.
The award is one of six that are given out by OCASA each year. The award recognizes Mary’s leadership (innovation, vision, and impact), her contribution to others (students, the system, and our communities) and her outstanding performance (team involvement, achievements and earned recognition) over 39 years of service to the sector.
Mary first joined the college system in 1979 as a Professor in the School of Business at Centennial College. She has served in administration in the postsecondary setting in Ontario for 26 years, first in 1992 as a Chair, then Director and ultimately Dean of Academic Studies at Centennial College. In 2002, she became Provost and VP Academic at the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, where she served prior to joining Sheridan in 2008 as Provost and Vice President, Academic.
Several Sheridan staff were on hand to help Mary celebrate this tremendous honour and to demonstrate Sheridan’s gratitude for her outstanding accomplishments and commitment to our institution and the sector at large.
