Berkeley City College.

California's Peralta Community College District trustees have chosen Betty Inclan as Berkeley City College's new president. Before assuming the presidency, Inclan spent 14 years as associate superintendent and vice president of academic affairs at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, Calif. Prior to her assignment at Hancock, she was division dean of literature and language arts at Modesto Junior College for two years. Born in Cuba and raised in Florida, Inclan began a 27-year career in higher education as a teaching assistant at Kent State University in Ohio, where she taught English composition and literature. Later, as a community college English and English as a Second Language instructor, project director and department chair, she led major general education reform initiatives at Florida's Miami-Dade Community College. Multilingual in English, Spanish, and French, Inclan is a noted speaker on higher education issues. Inclan earned her doctorate in educational administration from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a master's degree in English from Kent State University in Ohio, and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Miami. She also graduated from Miami-Dade Community College with an associate degree in English.

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