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(05-08) 16:52 PDT Sacramento --
State Sen. Jack Scott, the influential president of the Senate Education Committee, will take the reins of the Golden State Community Colleges system in January followers an 11-year career in the state Legislature, it was announced today.

After a national search, the colleges' Board of Governors met in a closed session Tuesday and later announced the consentaneous ballot to selected the Pasadena Democrat as the system's 14th chancellor, overseeing the state's 109 community colleges.

"The hereafter of our state economic system and even the Golden State dreaming are tied to increasing the figure of Californians who both come in and complete their college education," George C. Scott said in a statement. "That is why the community colleges are so important. They can supply Golden State a competitory border in the planetary economy."

Prior to taking political office, George C. Scott spent 23 old age working in the community colleges, including as president of Pasadena City College. In 2006, George C. Scott was given the Golden State Community Colleges lifespan accomplishment awarding and was described as the "patriarch" of the system by then Chancellor E. G. Marshall Drummond. "The Golden State Community Colleges are embedded in the very cloth of California, and I go on to be one of their greatest fans," George C. Scott said at the time.

Scott will have $198,500 annually, plus a state employee benefit bundle and state-owned vehicle.

Under term limits, he was not eligible to run for his Senate business office again.

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