Waynesburg University president receives Top Executive Award
Waynesburg University President Douglas G. Lee recently received the Pittsburgh Business Times’ 2017 Outstanding CEO and Top Executive Award.
The 2017 Outstanding CEOs and Top Executives Awards honor Western Pennsylvania’s outstanding business leaders. The winners include CEOs and company presidents at both nonprofit and for-profit organizations in the Pittsburgh region.
The Pittsburgh Business Time’s website states that honorees have demonstrated leadership and customer service philosophy, outstanding employee relationships, contributions to the community and evidence that they have shaped their company to help lead their business to success.
Lee joined Waynesburg University as executive vice president in October 2009. He was unanimously elected president of the university by the Board of Trustees in September 2012 and took office July 2013.
Under Lee’s leadership, Waynesburg University has received national attention for the economic outcomes of its graduates. Studies published by The Brookings Institution, The Economist, USA Today and MONEY Magazine have placed Waynesburg University in the top 10 percent nationwide in this category. In September 2016, Waynesburg University was ranked No. 7 in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Value School for the North.”
Under Lee’s leadership, the university has been recognized by the Pittsburgh Business Times as a Best Place to Work for 2015 and internationally as one of the most beautiful Christian college campuses in the world. In 2015, the university was awarded Imani Christian Academy’s Leadership in Service Education Award. The university has also been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for eight straight years.
Lee chairs the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Presidents’ Council and is on the board for the Association of Independent Colleges & Universities of Pennsylvania.