County College of Morris President Won't Seek Contract Renewal in 2016

In 2016 Dr. Edward Yaw, President of County College of Morris, will celebrate 30 years as the school’s leader, and it will also be his final year in the role.

Yaw announced recently that when his contract is up in August 2016 he won’t seek a renewal, and will retire from the position.

Yaw came to CCM in 1980 as the Dean of Academic Affairs, and was appointed President in 1986, taking over for the school’s first president, Dr. Sherman Masten.

“I want to express my deep sense of gratitude for what we have been able to accomplish here,” Yaw said in a statement. “I am especially proud of our faculty. It is because of their dedication that our academic programs are so widely recognized in the state and even around the nation.”

CCM has one of the highest combined transfer and graduation rates among community colleges in New Jersey.

No replacement for Yaw has yet been named.

Pictured: Dr. Edward Yaw, County College of Morris President. Photo Courtesy County College of Morris.

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