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749 Story Rd San Jose, CA 95122
Dr. Rita M. Cepeda, the new Chancellor for the San Jose Evergreen Community College District has served as college president for the last twelve years, the last five at San Diego Mesa College. She began her thirty year career in community colleges in 1980 when she joined the State Chancellor�s Office where she served for eighteen years; the last eight years as Vice Chancellor for Educational Services and Economic Development. In this capacity she headed the largest division within the State Chancellor's Office, managing the entire spectrum of community college instruction, special programs and economic development, thereby, providing state academic leadership to the 72 community college districts in the state of California.
Prior to Mesa College, Dr. Cepeda was named to a two-member, special crisis intervention team by the State Chancellor to assist Compton College and for a year was Interim President/Superintendent for this district. From 1999 to 2004, Dr. Cepeda served as president of Santa Ana College, the largest college of the Rancho Santiago Community College District. And before Santa Ana College, Dr. Cepeda served in her first presidency as interim president for a year, at Mission College in the West Valley Mission Community College District.
Our speaker for August 27
RITA MARIA CEPEDA, Ed.
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