NACCE Names Entrepreneurial College & President of the Year

NACCE has named San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) as the 2019 Heather Van Sickle
Entrepreneurial College of the Year. Paul Dale, Ed.D., president of Paradise Valley Community
College (PVCC), has been named Entrepreneurial President of the Year.

Springfield, MA, October 16, 2019 --(PR.com)-- The National Association for Community College
Entrepreneurship (NACCE), the nation's leading organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship
through community colleges, has named San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) in San Diego,
California, as the 2019 Heather Van Sickle Entrepreneurial College of the Year at its 17th Annual
Conference, now underway in Newport Beach, California. Also, Paul Dale, Ed.D., president of Paradise
Valley Community College (PVCC), in Phoenix, Arizona, has been named NACCE's 2019
Entrepreneurial President of the Year.

2019 Entrepreneurial College

“I am delighted that San Diego Continuing Education has been selected as the winner of the Heather Van
Sickle Entrepreneurial College of the Year Award,” said Rebecca Corbin, Ed.D., president and CEO of
NACCE. “This award recognizes a college for embracing the NACCE Presidents for Entrepreneurship
Pledge (PFEP), and for its significant entrepreneurial achievements in the local communities it serves.”

SDCE is part of the San Diego Community College District, encompassing seven community colleges in
the greater San Diego area. It is one of the largest non-credit colleges in California and is committed to
student success and community enrichment by providing accessible and innovative quality education and
support services to diverse adult learners. Carlos O. Turner Cortez, Ph.D., president of SDCE, has
spearheaded the creation of ICOM Academy (Interactive Competency-based Online Microcredentialing
Academy), which will launch next fall. ICOM is a fully online educational program that provides adult
learners with flexible job training and extensive career placement services.

“ICOM is free, fast, and synchronous and provides adult learners highly interactive career education with
five career education options in small business entrepreneurship and information technology,” said
Turner Cortez. “We designed ICOM exclusively to be interactive and collaborative. It allows for group
projects to make the learning experience more dynamic for adults learners in the San Diego area.”

2019 Entrepreneurial President

Paradise Valley Community College President Paul Dale has led the college since 2010, initiating several
entrepreneurial and innovative programs that include partnerships with local non-profits and the creation
of the college's Entrepreneurship Center. “Positive social change is one of the major pillars of our
college's mission, and social entrepreneurship aligns with this closely,” said Dale. “Through programs
like Fresh Start, a small business development certificate program that helps women transition into the
workforce, we've experienced positive results over the past several years and want to continue to scale
this and other programs and get students even more involved in social entrepreneurship ventures.”

“President Dale has demonstrated a deep commitment and support for entrepreneurship initiatives that

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have impact across the college and the community,” said Corbin. “He has invested significant time,
energy, and resources to foster innovation at PVCC and has infused entrepreneurial thinking across all of
the college's disciplines.”

Dale's leadership and commitment to entrepreneurship are evident in the faculty-initiated Club Z, a
student success group that takes on specific initiatives to support the campus as a whole as well as the
greater community. “Moving forward, we'd like to build on the work we've been doing at Club Z and the
Entrepreneurship Center,” he said. “We want to make ourselves more accessible to others, including
small businesses in the community, and increase engagement with external partners.”

About NACCE
NACCE is an organization of educators, administrators, presidents, and entrepreneurs focused on igniting
entrepreneurship in their community and on their campuses. Since its inception, it has become one of the
largest entrepreneurial ecosystems in the United States. NACCE has two main goals: to empower the
college to approach the business of running a community college with an entrepreneurial mindset; and to
grow the community college's role in supporting job creation and entrepreneurs in its local ecosystem.
The association represents 325+ community and technical colleges and 2,000 faculty, staff, administrators
and presidents who serve more than 3.3 million students. Visit: www.nacce.com.

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Contact Information:
National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship
Carol Savage
978-857-1473
Contact via Email
www.nacce.com

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