Anne Arundel Community College President Dawn Lindsay is the recipient of the Trustee Alumni Award from her alma mater, McDaniel College. Lindsay graduated from the college with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and social work in 1981 and a master’s degree in counselor education in 1982.

The Trustee Alumni Award is the highest alumni honor given at McDaniel in recognition of alumni career and service achievement.

Since 2012, Lindsay has served as the sixth president of Anne Arundel Community College. She has dedicated more than 29 years to the community college system serving as an advocate, representing the needs, values and importance of the community college system at the local, state and national levels.

She was previously the president of Glendale Community College outside of Los Angeles and held several dean positions at Riverside Community College in California. A Maryland native, she also taught at Howard Community College and the Community College of Baltimore County. She earned an Ed.D. in organizational leadership from Pepperdine University.

Currently, Lindsay serves on a number of national, regional and local boards. She sits on the executive committee of the board for the League for Innovation in the Community College, an international nonprofit whose mission is to cultivate innovation in the community college environment. Additionally, she is a member of the board of directors for the American Association of Community Colleges, the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council, Fort Meade Alliance and Baltimore Washington Medical Center, and was appointed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to serve on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

McDaniel College, founded in 1867 and nationally recognized as one of 40 “Colleges That Change Lives,” is a four-year, independent college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus more than 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its personalized, interdisciplinary, global curriculum and student-faculty collaboration develop the unique potential in every student. A diverse, student-centered community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students, McDaniel offers access to the resources of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and is the only American collegewith a European campus in Budapest, Hungary. www.mcdaniel.edu