LSC-Montgomery Professor Accepts National Excellence Award

Lone Star College Montgomery News

Published on: April 14, 2015
Lone Star College-Montgomery professor Michele Richey was recently selected as a 2015 recipient of the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence award, a national award given to outstanding community college faculty or staff by the League for Innovation.


Lone Star College-Montgomery professor Michele Richey was recently selected as a 2015 recipient of the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence award, a national award given to outstanding community college faculty or staff by the League for Innovation.The League for Innovation, an international, nonprofit conglomerate of community colleges and corporate partners dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement, established the John and Suanne Rouche award in honor of two distinguished community college leaders, to recognize outstanding community college teachers and their directorship efforts.Recipients are recognized annually in a series of activities and promotions, then presented each spring with the award at the Leagues Innovations conference.  Richey, associate sociology professor, was presented with the award in Boston last month.I was very honored to receive this award, said Richey. I work hard to try to set my students up for success in my classes, as well as make the material applicable to their everyday lives regardless of what its like for them at home or work. I also try to advocate for students through my leadership positions on campus.Richey, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, attended New York University where she received her bachelors degree in psychology and sociology and her masters degree in higher education leadership.Richey spent ten years working in student affairs at Seattle University, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and the University of Colorado-Boulder. While in Colorado Springs, she earned her masters in sociology.Upon relocating to Houston, Richey worked at the University of Houston and Houston Community College before hiring on as a full-time professor with LSC-Montgomery.This is my dream job and I feel extremely blessed ...

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