California community colleges chancellors

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Community Colleges. Sonya Christian, the new chancellor for the California Community Colleges, has ambitious goals for the system of colleges. Christian, the 11th permanent chancellor and first woman in the role, discussed those plans during a one-on-one conversation this week with EdSource, her first such interview since taking over as chancellor on June 1.

She was previously the chancellor of the Kern Community College District and before that was president of Bakersfield College. Christian also revealed during the interview that her plans and goals for the system will be further outlined in a new planning document that her office plans to publish next month, called Vision A Roadmap for California Community Colleges.

The interview came as Christian was visiting West Los Angeles College for a conference focused on the role of community colleges in helping tackle climate challenges. EdSource: The main initiative of your predecessor, Eloy Ortiz Oakley, was the Vision for Success , which detailed his goals for improving completion rates, transfer rates and other student outcomes.

Do you plan to continue implementing that initiative? Christian: Let me tell you about Vision And then last year, the governor put out the Roadmap for California Community Colleges. So Vision not only is a synthesis of those two documents, but we add to that the current context. So even the title was very carefully crafted. We want to retain the word vision, signaling that the core principle of our commitment to success with equity, that is a core principle of the Vision for Success.

So all of that is preserved. What do you see as the role of the community colleges in helping to deal with climate change?