Dr. Bumphus received his B.S. degree in Speech Communications and his M.Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in Educational Administration from The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Graduate of the Executive Leadership Institute’s League for Innovation in the Community College.
Dr. Bumphus is the recipient of the 2009 American Association of Community Colleges National Leadership Award, which is presented to the individual whose accomplishments and professional contributions to the community college field have been outstanding.
He currently serves as distinguished professor in the Community College Leadership Program and as chair of the Department of Educational Administration. Dr. Bumphus holds the A. M. Aikin, Jr. Regents Chair in Education Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Bumphus served as System President of Louisiana Community and Technical College System from 2001–2007, where he was responsible to the Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS) Board of Supervisors for providing visionary leadership and direction for the State’s seven community colleges, two technical-community colleges, and the Louisiana Technical College which has forty campuses statewide. The System provides educational programs and services each semester to approximately 51,000 students; employs over 5,400 employees; and has an annual operating budget of $250 million.
He led the development and implementation of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System Leadership Development Institute (LDI). Throughout the five years that this program has been in existence, over 150 leaders have undergone training, and approximately 50 percent of the participants have been promoted within the System.
Dr. Bumphus was selected by the Association of Community College Trustees as the 2005 Marie Y. Martin CEO of the Year.
From 1997 to 2000, Dr. Bumphus served a President of Voyager Expanded Learning, Higher Education Division, which created highly effective K-8 learning programs that combined innovative curricula and advanced staff development and assessment to consistently achieve accelerated rates of learning. Voyager, the pioneer of after-school learning programs, provided curricula to over 1,000 school districts in 45 states. He assisted in the development of innovative reading curricula that proved very effective in advancing students in grades K-8 to appropriate grade level.
He was elected by community college presidents and chancellors
to the American Association of Community Colleges’ Board
of Directors, and was subsequently elected by members of
the Board as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the American
Association of Community Colleges for 1996 and 1997.
