Alison Bernstein Receives American Council on Education's Lifetime Achievement Award

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Alison R. Bernstein, vice president of the Ford Foundation's Education, Creativity and Free Expression program, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Council on Education (ACE) on March 6.

NEW YORK, 11 March 2010 — Alison R. Bernstein, vice president of the Ford Foundation's Education, Creativity and Free Expression program, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Council on Education (ACE) on March 6. The award paid tribute to her remarkable career in academia, leadership in the field, and committment to strengthening higher education.

Bernstein was presented the award at the ACE's Women's Leadership Dinner in Phoenix, Ariz. "Alison has supported women, especially women of color, throughout her career and has worked tirelessly to provide leadership training and career development opportunities to ensure their success in higher education administrative positions,” ACE President Molly Corbett Broad said in a news release.

Bernstein is responsible for grant making in education, scholarship, media, religion, arts and reproductive health and rights at Ford, where she has served 13 of her 28-year tenure as program vice president. She has also held leadership and teaching positions at Princeton University, Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois, Springfield) and Staten Island Community College (now the College of Staten Island, City University of New York).

The American Council on Education is a leading higher education organization in the United States that represents and coordinates nearly 2,000 accredited colleges and universities, as well as higher education-related associations, organizations and corporations. The 92-year-old organization's member institutions serve 80 percent of college students today.

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