The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program has selected Dr. Tashika Griffith, provost of the Clearwater Campus at St. Petersburg College, as one of 40 leaders selected for the 2024-25 Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship.
The Aspen fellowship aims to select and prepare the next generation of presidents who can lead institutions to higher and more equitable levels of student success.
The fellows, selected through a competitive process, will work closely with accomplished community college presidents and thought leaders, for more than 10 months, to learn from field-leading research, examine demographic and labor market conditions in their communities, assess student outcomes at their colleges and advance a vision for equitable outcomes for students while in college and after they graduate.
Rising Presidents Fellows aspire to enter a college presidency within five years of completing the fellowship. As fellows, they join a network of over 350 forward-thinking peers — 175 of whom are sitting college presidents — who are applying concrete, grounded and innovative strategies to meet student success challenges in their colleges.