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Brice W. Harris, Chancellor, Los Rios Community College District (CA)

Brice W. Harris currently serves as Chancellor of the Los Rios Community College District in Sacramento, California. Los Rios is one of the largest multi-college districts in America and covers more than 2,400 square miles of central California. The District includes American River, Cosumnes River, Folsom Lake and Sacramento City colleges, and currently enrolls nearly 90,000 students each semester. Harris was previously the President of Fresno City College in Fresno, and a faculty member and Vice Chancellor in the Kansas City, Missouri community college system.

Harris is past president of the Board of the California Community College Chief Executive Officers, and a Commissioner of the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges. He chaired the Task Force on Leadership in California community colleges and the community college Task Force on Global and International Education and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community Colleges.

Also an active member of the greater Sacramento business community, Harris is a past Chair of the Board of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and of the Board of the Northern California World Trade Center. He is incoming chair of the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade organization (SACTO). Harris is active in the arts having served on the Board of the Crocker Art Museum, as Board President of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, and Board member of the Kansas City Museum.

Harris did post doctoral study at the Harvard University Institute of Educational Management, received his Doctorate in Education at Nova Southeastern University, his Master's in Communication from the University of Arkansas, and his Bachelor's in Communication from Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Harris resides in Fair Oaks, California with his wife Barbara who is an elementary educator and has three adult children also in the state.