Coastline College President Awarded for Excellence in Leadership

LOS ANGELES, May 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Loretta Adrian, Ph.D., president of Coastline College in Orange County, California, was recently honored with the "Outstanding President" award from the California Community College Council for Staff and Organizational Development.  The award is presented to a president/chancellor in the California community college system to recognize excellence in leadership in staff and organizational development.  Adrian was nominated and selected for the award based on her strong commitment to professional development for the staff and faculty at Coastline, as exemplified by the Leadership Innovating Together for Tomorrow (LITT) and the Faculty Center for Innovation and Excellence.

Dr. Adrian was also recently appointed to the board of directors of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, the nation's leading organization focused on promoting entrepreneurship and workforce development through community colleges. 

Dr. Adrian became president of Coastline Community College in 2010.  She has spent more than 25 years in higher education.  As president, Adrian has enhanced Coastline's culture of innovation, entrepreneurship, and excellence, and fostered student and equity-centered mindset and practice.

Adrian has a master's in Communication Theory from University of the Pacific and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Claremont Graduate University.  She is a  first-generation Filipino-American.  After college graduation, she joined the U.S. Peace Corps as a language instructor and became a Project Director.  Dr. Adrian pursued both her master's and Ph.D. as a single mother while raising two children and working full time.

"It has been such a privilege serving students from diverse backgrounds in the community college system – comprised of teaching and learning-centered institutions that transform students' lives through education, facilitated and nurtured by caring staff and faculty," said Adrian.

In 2018 - 2019, Coastline College continues to receive multiple awards and recognitions for innovation in education.  The college has been a top front runner of the 114 community colleges in California and of the nearly 1500 community colleges nationwide.    

About Coastline College:

Coastline College has been selected as one of the top 150 colleges by The Aspen Institute for Community College Excellence which is considered the most prestigious designation for community colleges. Inspired by an innovative and student-centered mindset, Coastline delivers flexible courses and services that cultivate and guide diverse student populations across the globe to complete pathways leading to the attainment of associate degrees, certificates, career readiness, and transfer to four-year colleges/universities.

Contact:
Dawn Willson
Marketing & Communications Director
Coastline Community College
[email protected]
(o) 714-241-6186

SOURCE Coastline College

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