Martha A. Smith, Ph.D., began her tenure as the fifth president of award-winning Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, on Aug. 1, 1994.

Under her leadership, the college and its programs have received national and state recognition and awards. The prestigious international League for Innovation in the Community College unanimously selected Anne Arundel Community College in October 2004 as the 20^th college represented on its board of directors. As president, Dr. Smith became the fifth woman CEO on the league board.

Anne Arundel Community College is the only community college to have won the National Council for Continuing Education and Training’s Exemplary Program in Workforce Development Award four times -- the latest one in 2006 for its Words for Work program that helps Spanish-speaking students key words and phrases needed to move into better jobs. The Exemplary Program Awards recognize outstanding programs and promote replicable best practices nationally in four categories: continuing education, community services, workforce development and learning technologies.

AACC shared the 2007 Comcast Hall of Fame Business Partnership of the Year award with the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation and the BWI Partnership for the one-stop careers center that provides workforce training information to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport employees, employers and patrons.

AACC received the West Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce’s 2006 “Nonprofit of the Year” award, which recognizes a nonprofit organization that has developed close partnerships with the business community as a way to achieve its overall mission. AACC earned the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce’s 2005 National Achievement Award for strategic planning that has allowed the college to meet both workplace and community needs; award-winning technology allowing students and the public access to its resources; and entrepreneurship education.

In addition, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaffirmed AACC’s accreditation in 2004 and commended the college on its progress to date; the Consortium for Community College Development named AACC as Profile College for Organizational Development in June 2004; the Center for Digital Education awarded AACC first place in its category in national competition on the use of digital technology in 2004; and the BWI Business Partnership Inc. named AACC the 2004 Employer of the Year.

One of the most prestigious honors was when the National Alliance of Business named AACC its 2001 Community College of the Year.

Dr. Smith also has earned a reputation for innovation and creativity. In February 2007, she was named to a three-year term on the board of directors of the American Council on Education, an organization that represents 1,600 college and university presidents and provides leadership and a unifying voice on issues affecting higher education. Former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in May 2005 appointed Dr. Smith to the Maryland Education Council, which represents the state on the national Education Commission of the States. In January 2006, she was invited to serve on that commission’s Postsecondary Education and Workforce Development Institute Advisory Committee.

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