Irving Pressley McPhail, Ph.D. - President, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail is the sixth president and Chief Executive Officer of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME). He joined NACME in 2007 as executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer. Dr. McPhail founded and served as principal of The McPhail Group LLC. He also served 15 years as a college president or chancellor of colleges and universities in Baltimore, MD, Saint Louis, MO and Memphis, TN. Under his leadership, The Community College of Baltimore County was named one of 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges in the U.S. and Canada in 2000 by the League for Innovation in the Community College and was awarded the PBS O’Banion Prize for Leading the Way to Change in Teaching and Learning in 2003. He earned a bachelor’s degree in development sociology at Cornell University and a master’s degree in reading at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He earned the doctorate in reading/language arts at the University of Pennsylvania as a National Fellowships Fund Fellow.