Bernadine Chuck Fong

Staff Information

Role

Senior Partner

Bio

Bernadine Chuck Fong is president emerita of Foothill College. She began her 36-year career at Foothill 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 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 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” for 2002, an award given by Chicago’s Harold Washington College Chapter of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges. She is a past trustee of the Carnegie Foundation. 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