Peralta College Board Unanimously Extends Chancellor Jannett Jackson’s Contract

OAKLAND, Calif. (October 15, 2021) – The Board of Trustees of the Peralta Community College District (PCCD) contiguous voted unanimously successful peculiar league to widen the declaration of Dr. Jannett Jackson arsenic Interim Chancellor of the District for 2 years. 

“The Board took this enactment to proceed the affirmative momentum and absorption enabled by Chancellor Jackson’s leadership,” said Dr. Cynthia Napoli-Abella Reiss, President of the Board of Trustees of Peralta Community College District. “Chancellor Jackson has demonstrated a fervent committedness to students, staff, and faculty; and the Board understands and values however captious enactment stableness is successful remaining steadfast connected our people of action.”

The Board renewed Interim Chancellor Dr. Jannett Jackson’s declaration until December 2023.

“Chancellor Jackson is the close idiosyncratic astatine the close clip for this job. She brings decades of administrative acquisition to Peralta and has demonstrated a lifelong committedness to the well-being of students, staff, and faculty- and truly our full community,” added Dr. Nicky Gonzalez Yuen, Vice President of the Board. “She has worked to physique a civilization of inclusion, respect and accountability crossed the District.”

“I’m excited astir the accidental to proceed to pb this district,” said Chancellor Dr. Jannett Jackson. “I americium humbled that the Board of Trustees has demonstrated their spot and enactment of my actions arsenic the elder leader, and I look guardant to continuing to enactment with immoderate astonishing colleagues.  Peralta and its colleges person large committedness and imaginable to marque an adjacent greater affirmative interaction connected the lives of our students and our community.”

Chancellor Jackson is an experienced CEO having served arsenic the esteemed Chancellor of the Chabot-Los Positas Community College District from 2013 to 2018 erstwhile she retired, and antecedently served arsenic Interim President of Skyline Community College successful San Bruno successful 2019-2020 anterior to her assignment arsenic PCCD Interim Chancellor successful April of 2021.

Chancellor Jackson archetypal joined the PCCD District via College of Alameda successful 2004 serving arsenic Vice President of Instruction. In 2010 she was promoted to President of the College and she served arsenic President with favoritism done 2013, erstwhile she near to go Chancellor astatine the neighboring Chabot-Los Positas Community College District.

Chancellor Jackson was hired by PCCD successful April due to the fact that she knows the assemblage truthful good and has proven acquisition arsenic some an pedagogue and main enforcement officer, Dr. Napoli-Abella Reiss said astatine the clip of her hiring, adding that Dr. Jackson’s would “help Peralta proceed the bully advancement we’ve made implicit the past year, connected some our finances and our accreditation.”