Name: Dorey Diab
Job Title: President & CEO
Institution: North Central State College (OH)
Since: 2013
Previous Positions: Provost and Chief Academic Officer (2009-2013), Executive Director of Emerging Technologies (2004-2006), Chair of Engineering Technologies (1999-2004), Adjunct and Full-time Faculty (1993-1999), Stark State College; Vice President and Chief Academic Officer (2006-2009), Rhodes State College
Affiliations and/or Boards: American Association of Community Colleges Board (AACC): board member; AACC Presidents Academy Executive Committee (PAEC): past chair; Association of Community Colleges Trustees (ACCT); Achieving the Dream Leader College of Distinction; Ohio Association of Community Colleges’ Council of Presidents: previous chair (2 years), and previously on the Executive Committee (6 years); Chair Academy International Advisory Board; Richland County Regional Planning Commission: commissioner (past 2 years); Richland County Chamber of Commerce: past board member
State Engagement: Ohio Association of Community Colleges Executive Committee (previously treasurer, vice chair, and chair of the Presidents Council); past member, Richland County Chamber of Commerce Board; Crawford County Partnership for Education and Economic Development (previous); Franklin University Community Colleges Affiliation Council of Presidents (previous)
Past AACC Conventions Attended: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013
Past AACC Professional Development Participation: AACC Commission on Economic and Workforce Development; AACC Commission on AACC Committee on Audit/Finance (2024); AACC Commission on Research and Community College Trends (2024); AACC Presidents Academy Summer Institute (past 5 years); AACC New CEO Academy (multiple years in support of the AACC Presidents Academy Executive Committee); AACC Future Leaders Institute Advanced (2006); AACC Future Leaders Institute (2005); Harvard Graduate School of Education Seminar; Association of Community College Trustees – Leadership Congress: presentation with board members every year since 2013
Education: Ph.D., Higher Education Leadership, University of Nebraska; Executive M.B.A., Kent State University; M.S., Civil Engineering, Cleveland State University; B.S., Civil Engineering, Cleveland State University; A.S., Cuyahoga Community College.
Other: Harvard Graduate School of Education Seminar for Higher Education Leaders. Invited to the White House on College Opportunity Day of Action in 2014.