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. Brown has been featured by a number of major national press outlets, including ''

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'' magazine's "Intelligence Report." In 2011, Brown was asked by the

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publishing company to author a book about the past, present, and future of community colleges. Brown's book, ''First in the World: Community Colleges and America's Future'', was published in October 2012. The book was awarded the 2013 Bellwether Book Award by the Community College Futures Assembly in Orlando, Florida on January 29, 2013. Brown served an ex officio member of the Board of Directors for the Council for Resource Development (CRD); and

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(NACCE). He also served on the Board of Directors for the Association Mutual Health Insurance Company (AMHIC). Brown served on the Washington Higher Education Secretariat and Committee for Education Funding. He is former appointed member on the Steering Committee for the United States - Denmark Partnership for Vocational Education,

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. Brown also was appointed by former Secretary of State

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to a three-year term (through 2010) as Commissioner on the U.S. National Commission for

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. Brown holds a Bachelor of Arts in

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from the

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, a Master of Public Policy degree from the

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, and an Honorary

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from Atlantic Cape Community College in

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. He is married and the father of two daughters.

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