Name: Carlee Rader Drummer
Job Title: President
Institution: Columbia-Greene Community College
Since: 2019
Previous Positions: President, Quinebaug Valley Community College (2014–2019); Executive Director of College Advancement and Executive Director of the Educational Foundation, Oakton Community College (2001–2014); Vice President, Lipman Hearne, Inc. Marketing Consultants (1996–2001); Associate Vice President for Communications and Associate Professor of English, Carthage College (1992–1996); Manager of Public Relations and Communications, The New York Public Library (1989–1992); Director of Public Relations and Publications, Baruch College/The City University of New York (1983–1989); Director of Communications and Advertising, Hygiene Industries / Division of Nabisco Brands (1981–1983); English Composition and Fiction Instructor, The State University of New York at Stony Brook (1975–1981); Sportswear Buyer, Rike’s Department Store (1972–1975).
Affiliations and/or Boards: American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Commission on Small and Rural Colleges (2021–2024); AACC Commission on Public Relations, Advocacy and Advancement (2017–2020); Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Global Commission on Communications and Marketing (2020–2023); Columbia Memorial Hospital Trustee (2020–2024), member of Governance Committee and Performance Improvement Committee and chair of Marketing Committee; Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors (2019 – ), member of Fundraising Committee; Columbia Economic Development Corporation (2019 – ), member of Workforce and Education Committee and Career Connections Advisory Committee; Catskill Rotary Club (2019 – ); Crandell Theatre (2020 – ), member of Fundraising Committee and Marketing/Special Events Committee; Greene County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors (2019 – ), chair of Workforce and Education Committee and member of Legislative Committee; ReEntry Columbia Advisory Committee (2019 – )
State Engagement: Member of Governor Kathy Hochul’s Excelsior Task Force for Automotive Technology; member of New York Capital Region Higher Education Council; member of New York Community College Association of Presidents; member of New York Community College Trustees Association
Recent AACC Conventions Attended: 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017
Past AACC Professional Development Participation: Workforce Development Institute (January 2021); Presidents’ Academy Summer Institute (July 2017), presenter, “Community Colleges Reach the New Frontier: Asking for Money”; Convention presenter (April 2017), “Transforming the Financial Loan Office to the Financial Grant Office”
Education: Ph.D., English, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1989); MA, English, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1976); BA, English, magna cum laude, Wittenberg University (1972); Study Abroad, University of Exeter, England (1971); Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Seminar for New Presidents (2015); Oakton Community College Spanish I, II, III, and IV and Classical Piano (2010–2014)
Other: Adjunct faculty Quinebaug Valley Community College (Integrated Marketing Communications); adjunct faculty Baruch College/CUNY (Business Writing); co-authored the Community College Journal’s Takeaways: “Intentional Inclusion,” April/May 2021; author of “Stand By Your Brand,” Stamats Insights, January 2018; co-author, “Philanthropy and Private Foundations: Expanding Revenue Resources,” New Directions for Community Colleges, Josey-Bass (2015); co-author, Picturing Perceptions: A Photographic Approach to Understanding Students’ Views of a College, American Institutes for Research, 2003; editor and co-author, Contexts and Comparisons: A Student Guide to the Great Works, Kendall-Hunt, 1991; co-editor, A Commonplace Book: Honoring the Literary Lions 1981–1990, The New York Public Library (1990); keynote speaker, Simon Youth Foundation National Conference, “Connections that Impact” (2011); panelist, American Council on Education: Women in Higher Education National Leadership Forum (2011); Elbert K. Fretwell Outstanding Educator Award, Boy Scouts of America (2019)