Dr. Ronald L. Ellis, President of California Baptist University, is the current chair of the Executive Committee of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU). A member of the AICCU Executive Committee since 2004, he was elected vice chair in October 2009.
Ellis replaced Dr. Stuart Dorsey as chair of the AICCU Executive Committee when Dorsey resigned as president of the University of Redlands in March. Ellis’s term as chair continues through October 2011.
The AICCU was founded in 1955 to speak with one voice for the independent sector of California higher education in matters of public policy. AICCU was a principal architect of California’s student financial aid program and assists members by offering college admission information, cost saving programs, research, and management support.
Membership in the AICCU is voluntary and today there are more than seventy-seven (77) WASC accredited, degree granting, non-profit independent colleges and universities serving California. Among the scores of member schools are Stanford University, Pepperdine University, University of Southern California and the Claremont Colleges. AICCU members award nearly one-fourth of the bachelor, almost half of the master and doctorate, and two-thirds of the professional degrees in California.