Thomas Lail gets Chancellor's Award

Hudson Valley Community College Associate Professor Thomas Lail of Valatie, N.Y. is one of five recipients of the prestigious State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence for 2006.

The Chancellor's Award recognizes exceptional contributions to the university by its faculty and professional staff.

Lail, a member of the college's fine arts faculty, helped create the associate degree program in fine arts at the college in the late 1990s. Since 2003, he also has been responsible for securing numerous transfer agreements with several of the nation's most prestigious art schools, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Savannah College of Art and Design, Montserrat College of Art and Purchase College.

-- thetimesunion.com, May 17, 2006