Community Leaders: Public Higher Education | Johanna Duncan-Poitier | TEDxFMCC

Community colleges offer the proven history and plausible path forward to realize the power of public higher education. Johanna Duncan-Poitier is the Senior Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges and the Education Pipeline for the State University of New York (SUNY). She provides system oversight and coordination for SUNY’s 30 community colleges that educate more than a quarter of a million students with an annual operating budget of $2.1 billion. In her dual role, she also provides leadership to strengthen STEM education, teacher preparation, and connections between SUNY’s 64 campuses and New York State’s Pre K-12 schools and business leaders to improve college readiness, completion rates, and prepare a highly-qualified workforce. Ms. Duncan-Poitier earned a B.S. from Queens College (CUNY), an M.S. degree from Bernard M. Baruch College (CUNY) This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx