The 9th Annual Conference was a great success!  Please click on the links below to access the Conference Presentations and Photo Galleries.

Conference Presentations
Conference Photo Gallery I
Conference Photo Gallery II
Conference Photo Gallery III

Maury Cotter received the third NCCI Brent D. Ruben Award during the Annual Conference.  Please see the story featuring the Award below.

Leveraging Excellence Featured In ACE'S The Presidency Magazine

Three articles on Leveraging Excellence are featured in the spring edition of The Presidency.  Lee Todd, President of University of Kentucky and Chair of the Leveraging Excellence Award Selection Panel, provides the lead article.  The following two articles feature the Leveraging Excellence Award and 2008 Winners.  Click here to read the articles.

LEVERAGING EXCELLENCE AWARD:
An Award Program for Leveraging the Impact of Effective Practices

Leveraging Excellence in The Presidency News & Presentations
NCCI Leveraging Excellence Award Program 2008 Booklet
2009 Leveraging Excellence Award Program and Application
NCCI Leveraging Excellence Award Winners Selected  News 
NCCI Leveraging Excellence Award Ceremony Video
NCCI Leveraging Excellence Award Ceremony Photographs
NCCI Leveraging Excellence Overview

Sponsorship is provided by Follett Higher Education Group

University of Leeds Enters Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame

The University of Leeds was selected as the first university in Europe to win a prestigious international award for using a process devised by academics from Harvard Business School.  The University was recognized with a place in the Palladium's Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy for using the scorecard to achieve breakthrough results (to help focus its work on strategic aims, improved communications, and monitor performance).  Click here to read the press release.  Click here to learn more about the University's strategy.

Maury Cotter Receives the Third NCCI Brent D. Ruben Award

Maury Cotter, Director of the Office of Quality Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former NCCI President, received the NCCI Brent D. Ruben Award at the 2008 Annual Conference.  The Award recognizes Maury's contribution and leadership in advancing excellence in higher education and her role in establishing and leading NCCI.  Maury has been instrumental in establishing the Leveraging Excellence Award and is the Leveraging Excellence Program Director.

Rick Wallick, NCCI President, while presenting the Award to Maury, noted that her many accomplishments extend well beyond NCCI.  Maury has played a pivotal role in advancing excellence and quality improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (at both operational and strategic planning levels).  Click here to read more.

Message from the President

NCCI, with approximately 90 member institutions, is committed to advancing excellence in higher education and consists of a community of academic and administrative professionals brought together by their commitment to continuous improvement.  President's message cont.

NCCI's Vision

NCCI's vision is to function as a catalyst for higher education institutions to work collaboratively across institutions to employ effective methods for advancing academic and administrative excellence. To this end NCCI provides resources to its member institutions to help them to explore the concepts of continuous improvement. It is our hope that more institutions of higher education will embrace these concepts. NCCI works because of the sharing that occurs between its member institutions. (More Online Resources...)

2008 Progress Report

NCCI was created in 1999 and is now over 90 institutions strong.  Read NCCI's story, view the many awards and honors our member institutions have received, the books and articles they have published and much more. View Progress Report.

The MIT Press is pleased to extend a discount of 20% off the list price of selected books or journal subscriptions to NCCI members.

Books include such topics as higher education, innovation and management, leadership, intellectual property and copyright, campus architecture and green building, and women's education and advancement.

Visit the Members Only section to access the link to MIT Press.

If you are a member and have a question about your login and password, please contact NCCI.