Newsmakers

CEO retirement Linda Lujan, president of Lamar Community College (LCC), has announced her plans to retire on December 31, capping a 40-year career in higher education. She has led the Colorado college since 2016. Lujan…

Kudos John J. “Ski” Sygielski, president of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, and a member of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) board of directors, has been named to Central Penn Business Journal’s 2022…

CEO on the move Annesa Cheek will serve as the 11th president of Frederick Community College in Maryland, effective July 1. She is currently president of St. Cloud Technical and Community Collage in Minnesota, a post…

Obituary Paul R. Brown, who served as the fifth president of Zane State College in Ohio from 2004 to 2015, died on February 1 when a single-engine plane he was piloting crashed. He was 74….

Interim CEOs Darrell L. Cain will serve as interim president at Everett Community College (EvCC) in Washington. He is currently president of Pierce College Puyallup and has worked in higher education for almost 20 years…

CEO retirement Michele Johnson, who has served for 17 years as chancellor of the Pierce College District in Washington, has announced her plans to retire effective December 31, 2022. Over her 45 years at the…

Interim president Ryan Foley is now interim president of Southern Crescent Technical College in Georgia. He previously was executive vice president for academic and student affairs at Ogeechee Technical College (OTC) in Georgia. Foley has…

CEO on the move Jermaine Williams will serve as the next president of Montgomery College in Maryland, effective early 2022. He currently is president of Nassau Community College in New York, where he has led…

CEO on the move Byron D. Clift Breland has been appointed chancellor of California’s North Orange County Community College District, effective Jan. 18. Currently, he is chancellor of the San Jose–Evergreen Community College District. Breland…