Bernadine Chuck Fong

Staff Information

Role

Senior Managing Partner, Community College Programs

Bio

Bernadine Chuck Fong is senior managing partner for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and president emerita of Foothill College. She directs the foundation’s developmental mathematics initiative for 30 community colleges and universities in eight states. Through this initiative the foundation is building a networked improvement community to increase students success through the improvement of the practice in teaching. Fong began her 36-year tenure at Foothill College in the Silicon Valley, as a psychology and child development professor, and has authored two textbooks in these fields. She served as president for 12 years, retiring in June 2006. Fong also has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Institute for Higher Education Research and her research interests include academic leadership, organizational development, and community colleges as agents for educational equity. She is an executive coach for the Achieving the Dream Initiative, a national effort engaged in institutional transformation to assure the academic success of students of low income and of color. She has served on countless boards and commissions; she is a past trustee of Stanford University and the Carnegie Foundation; she was on the American Association of Community Colleges Board of Directors and chaired the AACC Commission for Academic, Student and Community Development and the Commission on Publications and Public Relations. She is a fellow of the American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley and the American Council on Education (ACE), and was named “Phenomenal Woman,” an award given by Chicago’s Harold Washington College Chapter of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges. Her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. are from Stanford University.

Address

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
51 Vista Lane
Stanford, CA 94305