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Experience and hands-on professionalism
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The NACME officers team is comprised of individuals with
outstanding careers in education, science, research,
publishing, marketing, finance and financial aid management.
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»» John Brooks Slaughter
»» Irving Pressley McPhail
»» John C. Eppolito
»» John Lubbe
»» Aileen Walter
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John Brooks Slaughter
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President and CEO
A former director of the National Science Foundation,
president of Occidental College in Los Angeles and
chancellor at the University of Maryland, College Park,
Dr. Slaughter has a long and distinguished background
as a leader in the education, engineering and the
scientific communities. He is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering (NAE), where he has served on
the Committee on Minorities in Engineering, chaired its
Action Forum on Engineering Workforce Diversity, and is
a current member of the NAE Council. Dr. Slaughter is
also a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the Tau Beta Pi Honorary
Engineering Society. In 1993, he was named to the
American Society for Engineering Education Hall of Fame, and in 2001 was named
an Eminent Member of the Eta Kappa Nu Society, the honorary society of electrical engineering.
Dr. Slaughter began his professional career as an electronics engineer at General Dynamics prior to spending 15 years at the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego where he rose to the position of department head for Information Technology. He has been director of the Applied Physics Laboratory and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington; academic vice president and provost at Washington State University; and most recently The Irving R. Melbo Professor of Leadership in Education at the University of Southern California. He has served as president and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering since August 2000.
He serves on the board of directors at Solutia, Inc. In February 2006, he was appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Dr. Slaughter earned a Ph.D. in engineering science from the University of California, San Diego; an M.S. in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Kansas State University. He holds honorary degrees from more than 25 institutions. Winner of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Award in 1997 and UCLA's Medal of Excellence in 1989, Dr. Slaughter was also honored with the first "U.S. Black Engineer of the Year" award in 1987 and the Arthur M. Bueche Award from the NAE in 2004.
Married to Dr. Ida Bernice Slaughter, an educational consultant and former school administrator, Dr. Slaughter has two children, a son, Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, Jr., DVM, and a daughter, Ms. Jacqueline Michelle Slaughter-Bolden.
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Irving Pressley McPhail
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Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Dr. McPhail served as Chancellor of The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), one of Maryland's largest and most powerful higher education providers, from 1998 to 2005. Under his leadership, CCBC successfully reorganized from three separate community colleges into a single, multi-campus, public college that is highly regarded for promoting academic excellence, developing potential, nurturing talent and cultivating partnerships that benefit the people, families and businesses of the Baltimore metropolitan region.
McPhail also served as president of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley and president of LeMoyne-Owen College. He has held senior tenured faculty appointments at Morgan State University, Delaware State University, LeMoyne-Owen College and Pace University, and served for one year as chief operating officer of the Baltimore City Public Schools.
The son of an upholsterer and a homemaker, McPhail grew up in Harlem, New York. He earned an academic scholarship to Cornell University, where he took a bachelor's degree in development sociology. He holds a master's degree in reading from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was a National Fellowships Fund Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his doctorate in reading/language arts.
McPhail has served as commissioner of the American Educational Research Association Commission on Black Education, co-founder and president of the National Association of Black Reading and Language Educators, and secretary of the board of directors of the American Council on Education. He is the co-editor of Teaching African American Learners to Read: Perspectives and Practices, and he and his wife co-authored Transforming Classroom Practice for African American Learners: Implications for the Learning Paradigm, which won the 2000 Research Award from the Maryland Association for Adult, Community and Continuing Education.
McPhail has received numerous awards including: the 2004 Harvard Graduate School of Education Alumni of Color Achievement Award; the Exemplary Leader and Pioneer Awards from the National Council on Black American Affairs of the AACC; the Learning Facilitator and Distinguished Service Awards from the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University; the Certificate of Honor from the Baltimore County Public Schools; and the Emerging Scholars Award for Commitment to Excellence in Developmental Education from St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley. President George Bush named the Community Outreach program of LeMoyne-Owen College, which McPhail created, the 246th "Daily Point of Light" on September 12, 1990.
McPhail is married to Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail, formerly president of Cypress College in California, and currently professor and graduate program coordinator of the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University. He is the father of Kamilah Carole McPhail, who received the Doctor of Psychology degree in clinical psychology at Loyola College in Maryland on May 20, 2006, and is currently a clinical psychologist in Charlotte, NC.
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John C. Eppolito
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CFO and Vice President, Administration
John Eppolito is CFO and vice president, administration for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. An IBM veteran, he joined NACME on October 15, 1998.
During a 34-year career at IBM, Mr. Eppolito held a number of management and executive positions that focused on providing operational support, business guidance and decision making in critical areas of operations. He was appointed controller of the Latin America division during a period of unstable economic and political environments. The business unit turned in sustained revenue and profit growth with good business controls. John was later appointed controller of the storage systems division and was very active in the restructuring and return to profitability of the disk drive business and the implementation of new operating systems (SAP-R3) for marketing, manufacturing and distribution.
In his last IBM assignment, Mr. Eppolito was the director of finance for the small and medium business unit for Latin America. With responsibility for the development of the business plan, financial analysis and expense controls.
Mr. Eppolito holds a B.B.A. degree from St. John's University. He and his wife, Joanne, live in Ridgefield, Connecticut. They have two daughters.
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John Lubbe
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Vice President, Institutional Advancement
John Lubbe joined NACME in April 2004. In his current position, he is responsible for fund-raising and donor relations.
Throughout his career, Lubbe has provided leadership in fund-raising to major institutions including Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, The City College of New York (CUNY), The New School University, and The Rockefeller University. As Vice President for Resource Development at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, he developed and implemented strategies that significantly increased the national headquarters' revenue through foundation grants, corporate sponsorships, special events, and major individual gifts.
At City College, Lubbe led the institution's Sesquicentennial fund-raising initiative and played a leadership role in the development of the City College 21st Century Foundation and the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. He worked closely with CCNY's Engineering Advisory Board to develop financial support for the college's nationally-ranked School of Engineering.
At the New School University, he led the Capital Campaign, the first in that university's history; developed university-wide and school-based strategic and annual operating plans; organized, supervised a 30-member staff; and rejuvenated the university's annual fund.
Lubbe has served on the boards of several organizations including Landmarks Harlem, The Harlem Jazz Foundation, and the Melrose Program of the I Have a Dream Foundation, among others. He also managed the Upward Bound Program Center at East Stroudsburg University. For more than a decade, he served as co-editor of Nature Study, an environmental education quarterly.
Lubbe holds a B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University and also did graduate studies at that institution and at Goddard College.
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Aileen Walter
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Vice President, University Programs
Aileen Walter began her second stint at NACME as vice president, scholar management. In this capacity, she is responsible for the management and direction of all NACME scholarship programs and scholarship management services. In 2003, Ms. Walter helped lead NACME's Student Support Strategy. This strategy has expanded formal partnerships with academic institutions. She also was responsible for laying the groundwork for NACME's NASA partnership and alumni outreach activities. The most recent addition to Ms. Walter's responsibilities is the management and outreach for the Alfred P. Sloan Minority Ph.D. program. In 1994, she received an "Outstanding Contribution" award for her work. She left the organization briefly for a position as University Diversity Consultant at Merck, a NACME Board member company.
Ms. Walter has more than 20 years of experience in scholarship management, having served as director of financial aid at the Stevens Institute of Technology prior to joining NACME.
She has been a member of the National Association of Financial Aid Administrators, and has served on the boards of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the National Society of Black Engineers and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
She holds a B.A. degree in English Literature from Montclair State College and a M.A. degree in Higher Education Administration from New York University.
Aileen and her husband live in Montclair, New Jersey. They have one daughter.
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