Missouri University of Science and Technology Chancellor John F. Carney III has been selected to receive the Chief Executive Leadership Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District VI.
Carney will receive the award at a luncheon Monday during the CASE District VI Conference in St. Louis.
Carney was cited by CASE for leading Missouri S&T through a series of positive changes since his arrival on the campus in September 2005. Those changes include his leadership to rename the campus, formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla.
The name change to Missouri University of Science and Technology, or Missouri S&T, took effect on Jan. 1, 2008, and was intended to better position the campus as a nationally recognized technological research university.
Since the name change, the campus has experienced increases in out-of-state applications and continuing strong alumni support during the final years of a $200 million capital campaign.
CASE also recognized Carney for restructuring the campus’ academic organization from a traditional structure of schools and colleges to one that encourages more collaboration among academic departments. He also was cited for promoting the university’s emphasis on energy research and education, and for his leadership with Missouri S&T’s fundraising campaign.
In a letter of support for Carney’s nomination, University of Missouri System President Gary D. Forsee said Carney successfully implemented both the name change and the reorganization because he “managed to create buy-in while quickly, carefully and methodically sharing information with all the key players – from students, faculty, staff and alumni to state legislators...”
“In every instance, he presented a solid rationale for both transformational processes, based on fact, and communicated his vision and reasoning using a variety of approaches that kept the preferences of the various audiences in the forefront,” Forsee wrote.
A native of Massachusetts and a civil engineer by training, Carney received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1963 from Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., and a master’s degree (1964) and Ph.D. (1966) in civil engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
