Roy A. Church

Dr. Church is currently the President of Lorain County Community College. He has served thirty-six years as a leader in comprehensive community colleges and has led the transformation of Lorain County Community College since 1987. Hallmark initiatives and accomplishments include:

• Creating comprehensive community higher education centers for local communities to access education from the K-12 level through graduate studies.


• Building collaborative initiatives with business, organized labor and government to enhance workforce education and economic development.


• Improving the articulation of programs and the transfer of students between secondary schools, community colleges and universities.

Dr. Church is professionally involved in activities to improve access to education, build collaborative initiatives, and improve articulation and transfer at the state, regional and local level. He serves co-Chairs of the Ohio Board of Regents’ Articulation and Transfer Council and as a member of the Governor’s Workforce Policy Advisory Board, and the State Advisory Committee on Adult Career-Technical Programs. Regionally, he is Vice Chair of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education. He serves on the Fund for Our Economic Future Funders’ Steering Committee; the WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN Ideastream Board; the Innovation Alliance, Co-Chair; the NorTech Board and chairs the Talent Sub-Committee of its Information Technology Initiative. Dr. Church also serves on the boards of The Midwest Consortium for Community College Development, Business Volunteers Unlimited, the Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network (MAGNET), TeamNEO and JumpStart.

Locally, he has chaired the United Way Campaign and served as President of the Board of the United Way of Greater Lorain County. For three years he chaired the Board of Lorain County 2020, a county visioning organization. He also is Secretary-Treasurer of the Great Lakes Organized Labor/Management Council. He is a board member of The Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise, The Center for Leadership in Education, the Lorain County Workforce Institute, Team Lorain County, South Shore Community Development Corporation, Lorain County Port Authority, El Centro de Servicios Sociales, the Lorain County Urban League and the Lorain County Chamber of Commerce.