Last Thursday, Professor Reuben A. Buford May was named a President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) Fellow for the 2024-2025 session.

PELP is a unique professional development program designed to broaden participants’ understanding of higher education issues and to strengthen their leadership skills related to overseeing a public institution at the university or system level. The program consists of four multi-day seminars in Chicago, Urbana-Champaign, Springfield, and Washington, D.C.

Professor Reuben A. Buford May, Ph.D. is the Florian Znaniecki Professorial Scholar, Professor of Sociology, and Department Head of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.