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Next generation of PCC leaders graduates
Photos and Story by Dana Haynes
The second cohort of leaders graduated on Friday, May 14, from Portland Community College’s Leadership Excellence and Development program.
Kimberly Neuburger (from left), Andrew Roessler, Gary Eaton, Jennifer Alkezweeny and Laura Horani.
The LEAD Academy, created by College President Preston Pulliams, is a yearlong program that identifies and trains up-and-coming leaders in the PCC community. The program is open to staff and faculty from all campuses and centers.
This year’s cohort included Jennifer Alkezweeny, who formerly served as the college’s service learning coordinator but who recently moved to the independent Gateway to College program; Linda Blanchette, staff and organizational development director; Jan Christiansen, contract and grant accounting manager; Gary Eaton, Cascade Campus Technology Department manager; Laura A. Horani, department chair of the English for Speakers of Other Languages Program at both Rock Creek and the Hillsboro Education Center; Kimberly Neuburger, Southeast Center Mathematics Department chair; and Andrew Roessler, training program manager for Career Pathways.
As its primary project, the 2009-10 cohort of the LEAD Academy focused on ways that PCC could better serve students who are or were in foster care services.
About Dana Haynes
Dana Haynes, joined PCC in 2007 as the manager of the Office of Public Affairs, directing the college's media and government relations. Haynes spent the previous 20 years as a reporter, columnist and editor for Oregon newspapers, including ... more »