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Montgomery County (Map, News) - A vice president at a 20,000-student community college in Pittsburgh soon will take over leadership of Montgomery College.
Bryan K. Johnson was named as Montgomery College’s seventh president on Tuesday, ending an exhaustive six-month search for Charlene Nunley’s successor.
Johnson said his main goals are to work on the affordability of tuition, to increase partnerships with Montgomery County public schools and to close the achievement gap so that all students at the college succeed academically. In explaining its final choice, trustees chairwoman Sylvia Crowder said that Johnson stood out from the other two finalists because he is someone who will take the 60,000-student community college to even greater heights.
“We had three excellent finalists, but he is the person we think is the best fit,” she said.
The other two finalists were Ana M. Guzman, the president of Palo Alto College in San Antonio, and Karen A. Stout, president of Montgomery Community College in Philadelphia. A selection committee had previously whittled down 70 total applicants to 10 semifinalists. In accepting what he called an honor, Johnson hugged all the trustees in attendance and praised the institution he was selected to oversee as an outstanding community college.
“I know the best days are before us,” he told the students and staff during a ceremony at the school’s Rockville campus. “Just remember that change is inevitable, but growth is optional. My hope, my will and my desire is for us to continue to grow.”
Closing the achievement gap is a mission on which Johnson focused at the Community College of Allegheny (Pa.), where he was vice president of student and community services and launched an initiative in which the college networked with 57 other national institutions to raise the bar of student achievement.
Crowder said that Montgomery College’s board soon will decide when Johnson will begin work at the college, but that it could be as early as February. Meanwhile, Nunley will finish out the school year as president, then retire.
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Thier are two other companies in N.Y. harbor that offer school and a job.
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These schools do not educate folks with degrees adequate for many BRAC jobs
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Please note that Judge Clifton Gordy is a Associte Judge in the Circuit Court for BALTIMORE CITY not Baltimore County.
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Answer: Mudd, Mikulsi, and O'Malley. Question: Name three rteasons not to attend the U of Md.
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Julie Evans, University of Maryland, Baltimore said:
In your facts about UMB, you left out the majority of the students (4,837) on campus which are in graduate and professional degree programs: Physicians 621 Pharmacists 480 Dentists 456 Social Workers 840 Lawyers 830 Nurses 788 Physical therapists 194 Other graduate (PhDs) 628
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i think it is great hoping for nothing but success
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Ori Shabazz said:
If not solved in primary or secondary, Black males (Black people) must settle the identity question during post secondary work. Black male and female students in Baltimore must be INSPIRED to learn through innovative means. Black male students have to be taught the very basics of education and SOCIAL skills.
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I believe the problem with low attendence of black males in college is a cultural issue not a fairness issue.
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You mean all it takes to get black males to go to college is have black professors? Wow, I wish it was that easy. There is a nation-wide trend for more women than men in post-high school education; right now the gap is about 55% women and 45% men and getting wider. How does the issue of the race require different tactics than simply being a male?
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As a retired teacher, I am happy to see black young men with a continued positive influence post- high school. I do hope that the program developes with enormous success and extend itself to young black adolences prior to exiting High School. We need to give them a little motivation during the middle school experience. If that is not an option, well, I guess those wilth the inner drive will continue graduating for some institude beyond High School will do so! But, statistics are evidence, the we are losing them before High School! Grades 6th - 8th have been the points of deciding whether to lead or to follow. Our black youth need you, as a group positive black role models to implement some incentives to motivate their self-esteem and ethnocentric pride! May God bless you in this endeavor that may enlighten others to join your cause that can make difference in our city and others!
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