The state’s Board of Regents for Higher Education named new presidents for three Connecticut community colleges Friday morning, including Enfield’s Asnuntuck Community College.
Asnuntuck’s new leader is James P. Lombella, who has been serving as interim president since June 2013, just prior to the retirement of former president Martha McLeod. He’s been with the school for nearly five years.
Meanwhile, the top job at Danielson’s Quinebaug Valley Community College — for which Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr. had been a candidate — will go to Carlee Drummer.
Drummer is executive director of college advancement and executive director of the educational foundation at Oakton Community College in Illinois. She succeeds Carmen R. Cid, who has been interim president since Aug. 2013.
Lastly, the regents chose Mary Ellen Jukoski as president of Three River Community College in Norwich. Jukowski was most recently president of Mitchell College in New London. Before that, she was dean of continuing education and assistant vice president for academic institution at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.
