Fujimoto Is Interim Chief at Pierce
Los Angeles community college trustees voted Wednesday to hire Jack Fujimoto, former president of Mission College in Sylmar, as interim president of Pierce College in Woodland Hills.
By a 6-0 vote, the trustees accepted Chancellor Neil Yoneji’s recommendation to put Fujimoto in the post for the next two to three months while trustees finish their review of three finalists for the permanent president’s job.
Yoneji said Fujimoto, who left Mission College about a year ago and retired from the district in December, could start as early as Monday at Pierce. He will work on a contract basis, earning about the same salary he was paid at Mission.
The job fell vacant after the current Pierce interim president, Mary Lee, failed to make the list of three finalists, and subsequently decided not to return to the campus.
She has asked district officials for reassignment to some other job elsewhere in the district.
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