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East Bay attorney named Foothill College president

East Bay attorney named Foothill College president

The board of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District has voted to appoint Thuy Thi Nguyen as president of Foothill College.

The five-member board voted unanimously to accept the recommendation of district Chancellor Judy Miner to name Nguyen to a two-year term, beginning July 1, as president. She will become the state's first Vietnamese-American community college president.

Nguyen, 40, has been general counsel at the Oakland-based Peralta Community College District.

Her annual salary will be $192,262, which includes a stipend for her law degree; plus stipends for expenses.

Thuy Thi Nguyen

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

CURRENT POSITION

Interim General Counsel, California Community Colleges Chancellor’s OfficeJuly 1, 2015 – current

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Interim President & CEO
Community College League of California
January 2, 2015 – June 19, 2015
General Counsel
Peralta Community College District
October 20, 2003 – June 30, 2015

EDUCATION

Juris Doctor, Law, UCLA, School of Law
B.A., Philosophy, Yale University

TOP THREE CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

My top three career accomplishments are:

1. Led the implementation of a district-wide strategic plan that resulted in Peralta CCD being taken off accreditation sanction;
2. Designed and led the implementation of an unprecedented statewide community college pathway to law school initiative that received national attention; and
3. Initiated and led the implementation of a new statewide allocation model for the Equal Employment Opportunity Fund.

Accreditation
While serving as General Counsel for Peralta CCD, I had also served as District-wide Strategic Planning Manager and led the full development and implementation of the strategic plan – critical steps needed for Peralta to avert continuing sanctions imposed by ACCJC.  In collaboration with the college presidents, I led the preparation for the accreditation visit in 2008 and was the main presenter.  The accreditation visiting team gave Peralta’s strategic plan glowing remarks, noting that the “culture of collaboration developed at PCCD is exemplary.”  In 2008, Peralta’s four colleges were taken off warning.

Law Pathway

I designed and worked with numerous constituencies to implement in 2014 an unprecedented initiative on behalf of the State Bar: 2+2+3 Community Colleges Pathway to Law School.  With the goal to provide opportunities in the legal profession for traditionally underrepresented populations, the initiative established an agreement among 6 law schools, their 6 undergraduate institutions, and 24 community colleges.  State Chancellor Brice Harris lauded the initiative as “first of its kind” in a press release, and University of California President Napolitano highlighted it in her Transfer Action Report.
Last year, I helped form a non-profit (California L.A.W.) through the Foundation for California Community Colleges and am currently serving as its founding board chair.  California L.A.W. establishes the full statewide diversity pipeline: 16 high school law academies, now 29 community colleges, 6 undergraduates, and 6 law schools.

Faculty Diversity & Student Equity

As Interim General Counsel for the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, I am currently leading several efforts on behalf of the State Chancellor to increase faculty diversity statewide.  Evidence shows that faculty diversity closes the student achievement gap.  In collaboration with the state’s EEO & Diversity Advisory Committee, I led the change in the EEO Fund allocation to promote EEO best practices (versus allocation based on FTES).  In collaboration with the Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative, I organized 2 statewide summits on faculty diversity hiring and 7 regional trainings on implicit bias, the educational benefits of diversity, and EEO laws.

(Source: https://foothill.edu/presidentsearch/nguyen.php)