President Emeritus
Jonathan M. Daube
Born and educated in Great Britain, Jonathan M. Daube came to the United States in 1963. He has been an English teacher; a school superintendent; a graduate school director; and a community college president in Western Massachusetts and, from 1987 to 2008, in Central Connecticut. His doctorate is from Harvard University and he spent 1968-1970 teaching at the University of Malawi in Central Africa. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, has served as a visiting member of the editorial board of the Hartford Courant and, in the fall of 2002, spent ten weeks on sabbatical at the University of London. During the summer of 2005, he visited Israel for a week. In 2007 he was elected President of the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) Development Trust USA. He retired from Manchester Community College in the summer of 2008. He recently served on the faculty of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Greater Expectations Institute and is a visiting lecturer at the School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is currently serving a a four-year term as Governor-appointed chair of Connecticut's recently formed Adult Literacy Leadership Board. In May 2010, he was named interim president at Middlesex Community College in Middletown, CT, an assignment he concluded in June 2011.
Recent Honors
Russell C. Hill Leadership Award, Connecticut Rivers Council Learning for Life, November 2009 Town of East Hartford: July 8, 2008 named Jonathan Daube Day
Manchester Arts Commission: Hall of Fame Inductee, June 2008
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, May 2008
Board of Trustees: named President Emeritus, May 2008
Great Path Academy: new magnet high school building named for Jonathan M. Daube, May 2008
Southern Connecticut State University: Commencement Speaker and recipient of President’s Medallion, May 2008
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce: Community Achievement Award, April 2008
Phi Theta Kappa: Michael Bennett Lifetime Achievement Award, April 2008
MCC Institute on Disability and Community Inclusion: Dr. Jonathan M. Daube annual Award for Inclusion and Accessibility, created April 2008
New England Board of Higher Education: State Merit Award for Connecticut, March 2008
