About the President
Dr. Jack Friedlander
Acting Superintendent/President, Santa Barbara City College (SBCC)
friedlan@sbcc.edu
805-730-4011
Brief Biography
Jack Friedlander, Ph.D., serves as the Acting Superintendent/President of Santa Barbara City College. He is responsible for providing strong educational leadership and strategic vision for both the college's credit and non-credit divisions including the main campus, two Continuing Education centers, and more than 90 satellite locations. SBCC currently enrolls nearly 20,000 credit students each semester along with 22,000 Continuing Education students annually.
Dr. Friedlander has been associated with SBCC for nearly 26 years. Prior to assuming the presidency in August 2011, he was SBCC executive vice president of educational programs responsible for the college's credit academic and student support programs and services. He has served on the president's Executive Committee, Academic Senate, and chairperson for the College Planning Council, the Deans Council, and Enrollment Management committees.
Prior to becoming SBCC executive vice president of educational programs, Dr. Friedlander served as the vice president for academic affairs and the dean for a number of college programs including Business, Technologies, Fine Arts, Social Sciences/Foreign Languages/Library divisions, Study Abroad Program, and International Students Program. Prior to coming to SBCC, Dr. Friedlander was an administrator at Napa Valley College.
Dr. Friedlander has been actively involved in professional organizations and activities at the local, state and national levels. These include serving on the boards for the Foundation for Santa Barbara City College, Partners in Education, the South Coast Business and Industry Technologies Awards Dinner, the Chief Instructional Officers Association for the California Community Colleges, the California Community Colleges Association for Occupational Education Association, and The Center for Student Success. He is also a member of the California League for Community Colleges' Legislative Advisory Committee and the Chancellor's Office Legislative Advisory Committee.
Dr. Friedlander's many accomplishments include authoring over 70 published articles, monographs, and books; presenting at more than 150 state and national conferences; and writing grant proposals that have generated over $14 million for SBCC.
His recognitions include selection as the 2010 Promising Outcomes Work and Exemplary Research (POWER) Award winner for "Exemplary Administrative Support" from the SLO (Student Learning Outcomes) Collaborative of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and the PR Group; the Administrator of the Year in 2005 by the California Association for Post-Secondary Education and Disabilities; the Research and Planning Groups' Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Excellence and Outstanding Contributions to the Profession of Planning and Research in California Community Colleges; the American Association for Community Colleges' National Council for Research and Planning's Practitioner Recognition Award; and the Mertes Award for Excellence in Community College Research.
Dr. Friedlander played a leadership role in developing SBCC's Partnership for Student Success program that received the Chancellor's Office for California Community Colleges' Outstanding Program of the Year award in 2007. He also was the lead author for two federal grants totaling more than $7 million that SBCC received in 2010 and in 2011 to increase and accelerate the success, progression, degree completion and transfer preparation of students. The grants are the largest ones in the college's history and will fund the SBCC accelerated "Express to Success" and "Express to Transfer" programs..
Dr. Friedlander and his wife Marci live in Santa Barbara.
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