The theme for the 2010 awards banquet was "Dawn of a New Decade...New Thinking in Higher Education." As part of the program for the evening, we had a distinguished panel of guest speakers:

• Cheryl Nuñez - Vice Provost of Diversity - Xavier University
• LaTania Gillipse - Director of External Affairs, AT&T and Trustee - Wilberforce University
• Kenneth Simonson - Director of Academics for the Emerging Ethnic Engineers Program - University of Cincinnati