Since becoming the system’s chief executive officer in July, 2001, Glenn DuBois has strategically positioned the Virginia’s 23 community colleges to elevate the commonwealth’s long stagnant rate of higher education participation. 

Under his leadership, the Virginia Community College System has signed unprecedented guaranteed transfer agreements with more than two dozen public and private four-year institutions; enhanced its workforce development services, helping Virginia close headline-grabbing economic development deals; diversified its funding sources, doubling foundation-led private fundraising; and shattered student enrollment records.

The Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society presented DuBois with their State Community College Award of Distinction at its national convention in April 2008.

Under DuBois’ leadership, the VCCS created of its first ever strategic plan, Dateline 2009. The seven measurable goals of the plan not only earned the VCCS national recognition, but also helped focus it on expanding access to affordable higher education, despite no corresponding increase in public funding. He is now leading the effort to create the system’s next strategic plan.

And DuBois is personally vested in an effort called Great Expectations aimed at increasing the number of foster care youth who pursue and complete a college program. In 2008, DuBois spent his summer vacation biking 800 miles throughout Virginia raising both awareness of and donations for the program’s pilot year at five colleges.

Prior to coming to Virginia, DuBois built an impressive record of executive higher education leadership, including serving as the Commissioner and CEO of the New Hampshire Community Technical College System as well as the Director of Community Colleges for the State University of New York – one of America’s largest networks of community colleges.