Dr. Wu is University of the West's seventh president.

Atkinson became the University of California's seventeenth president in October 1995.

The University of Florida's interim president, Robert Bryan, said this week that he thought the major problems were in the past.

She stepped down from her post as the University of Southern Mississippi's president and retired from the university December 31, 2012.

Herbst is the first woman to be selected as the University of Connecticut's president since the school's founding in 1881.

The University of Colorado's president can walk down the street and scarcely be recognized.

Later that year, at the age of just 36, he became the University of Minnesota's first president, serving from 1869 to 1884.

Father Quinn took office as the University of Scranton's 25th president on July 1, 2011.

Robert G. Frank (born 1952) became the University of New Mexico's 21st president on June 1, 2012.

The awards are named for the University of Virginia's fourth president Edgar F. Shannon.