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Interim CEO Cecilia Cervantes has been named interim president of Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico. Cervantes retired as president of Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) in 2015 and has served as a freelance consultant…
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CEO Jeff Wagnitz, who has been serving as acting president of Highline College in Washington state since December 2016, has been named interim president. He said he is not running for the permanent presidency and…
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Kudos DeRionne Pollard, president of Maryland’s Montgomery College, is a recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Academic Leadership Award. As the only community college president selected, Pollard — who also serves on…
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New CEOs Gregory Anderson has been appointed president of Saddleback College in California, effective October 16. Anderson has worked as a faculty member, director, dean and vice president among California community colleges for the past…
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CEO retirements E. Ann McGee, president of Seminole State College of Florida, has announced that she will step down as president, effective July 31, 2018. She has served as the college’s leader since 1996 and…
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CEO kudos Hal Higdon, chancellor of Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC), will receive the 2017 Missourian Award at the 24th annual Missourian Awards ceremony in September. The award honors outstanding Missourians who have made widespread…
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New CEOs Sherry Zylka has been named president of Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Kentucky, effective October 1. She currently is provost of the Wayne County Community College District in Michigan. Zylka has…
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CEO retirement Jack Bermingham, president of Highline College (Washington), has announced that he plans to retire effective in August. For the past several months, Bermingham, 68, has been on leave from the college to recuperate…
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Kudos Jabari Simama, president of Georgia Piedmont Technical College, was honored recently by the Atlanta Business League as one of Atlanta’s Men of Influence for 2017. The 2017 list reflects the names of black men in…
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Interim president Michael Redmond, a professor of philosophy and religion at Bergen Community College in New Jersey and a former administrator, will serve as the college’s interim president. He joined the college in 1981 and…