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Mt. SAC President Selected to Lead SanFACC
June 30, 2009
Dr. John S. Nixon, president/CEO of the state’s largest single-district community college, has been selected chair of the San Gabriel/Foothill Association of Community Colleges (SanFACC).
Nixon succeeds Dr. Paulette J. Perfumo, president of Pasadena City College, and will serve a one-year term.
SanFACC, founded two years ago, is comprised of Chaffey College, Citrus College, Glendale College, Mt. San Antonio College, Pasadena City College and Rio Hondo College.
Nixon has been Mt. SAC’s president since 2007 and previously served as vice president of Instruction. A 30-year education veteran, Nixon was vice president of Academic Affairs at Santa Ana College for 12 years, where he supervised nine academic divisions as well as counseling services and learning resources. He also served for a year as Santa Ana’s interim president in 1998 and as associate dean of Humanities and assistant dean of Continuing Education.
He has held statewide leadership roles, including co-chair of the System Advisory Committee on Curriculum, the statewide Basic Skills Advisory Committee, and as president of the California Community College Chief Instructional Officers Association.
SanFACC seeks to establish and maintain good communication between the region’s community colleges and to work together to represent the colleges’ regarding legislative matters. SanFACC’s top priority for the upcoming fiscal year is maintaining community college funding through ongoing advocacy efforts.
Nixon’s term as chair comes at a time when SanFACC’s member colleges, as well as those throughout the state, are faced with unprecedented budget challenges.
“In all my years in education, I haven’t experienced a fiscal crisis as severe as this,” Nixon said. “The situation is serious for the state and for the community colleges. Our collective regional voice is now more important than ever.”
Dr. John S. Nixon, president/CEO of the state’s largest single-district community college, has been selected chair of the San Gabriel/Foothill Association of Community Colleges (SanFACC).
Nixon succeeds Dr. Paulette J. Perfumo, president of Pasadena City College, and will serve a one-year term.
SanFACC, founded two years ago, is comprised of Chaffey College, Citrus College, Glendale College, Mt. San Antonio College, Pasadena City College and Rio Hondo College.
Nixon has been Mt. SAC’s president since 2007 and previously served as vice president of Instruction. A 30-year education veteran, Nixon was vice president of Academic Affairs at Santa Ana College for 12 years, where he supervised nine academic divisions as well as counseling services and learning resources. He also served for a year as Santa Ana’s interim president in 1998 and as associate dean of Humanities and assistant dean of Continuing Education.
He has held statewide leadership roles, including co-chair of the System Advisory Committee on Curriculum, the statewide Basic Skills Advisory Committee, and as president of the California Community College Chief Instructional Officers Association.
SanFACC seeks to establish and maintain good communication between the region’s community colleges and to work together to represent the colleges’ regarding legislative matters. SanFACC’s top priority for the upcoming fiscal year is maintaining community college funding through ongoing advocacy efforts.
Nixon’s term as chair comes at a time when SanFACC’s member colleges, as well as those throughout the state, are faced with unprecedented budget challenges.
“In all my years in education, I haven’t experienced a fiscal crisis as severe as this,” Nixon said. “The situation is serious for the state and for the community colleges. Our collective regional voice is now more important than ever.”
