DeRionne P. Pollard

DeRionne P. Pollard
Left to right: Dr. DeRionne Pollard, Penny Pritzker, Thomas Perez, and Dr. Sanjay Rai
President of Montgomery College
Assumed office
2010
Personal details
Alma mater Iowa State University

DeRionne P. Pollard is the current president of Montgomery College.

Education

DeRionne Pollard earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Iowa State University in 1993 and 1995.[1] She earned a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies in higher education from Loyola University Chicago.[2]

Biography

In 2010, DeRionne Pollard assumed leadership of Montgomery College, a three-campus community college with 60,000 credit and noncredit students. She spearheaded the development of a new Montgomery College mission and strategic plan. She has partnered actively with Montgomery County Public Schools and the Universities at Shady Grove in the creation of Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES), a support program designed to help students transition from high school to college completion.

Pollard formerly served as president of Las Positas College in Livermore, California. She served on the American Association of Community Colleges’ 21st Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges and the Commission on Academic, Student, and Community Development. Pollard is a member of the Community College Advisory Panel at the College Board and the Higher Education Research and Development Institute Advisory Board.

Closer to home, she serves on the board of Montgomery County Business Development Corporation, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, Universities at Shady Grove, and Generation Hope. She was recently named one of Washington’s 100 Most Influential Women by Washingtonian Magazine, and was awarded a Visionary Award by the Washington Area Women’s Foundation.

She has also been honored by Leadership Montgomery, The Daily Record, Bethesda Magazine and the Washington Business Journal.

References

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  2. ↑ "Biography". cms.montgomerycollege.edu.


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