By Susan Winlow

Jowel Laguerre, the president of Solano Community College, walked onto campus six years amid myriad troubles, namely accreditation issues that threatened to shut the college and necessitated the administration of a special trustee.

In May 2009, two months before his official start date of July 1, he’d already been to the campus three times to get a feel for things and to introduce himself.

“I’m jumping right in so I’m not a stranger when I come in July,” he said, back then, as he was finishing his tenure as the vice president for academic affairs at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno.

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