{"id":313347,"date":"2026-05-13T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313347\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:12:08","slug":"cal-state-long-beach-president-to-speak-at-compton-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313347\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal State Long Beach President to Speak at Compton College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cal State Long Beach President Loren J. Blanchard will deliver the keynote address at Compton College\u2019s 2026 commencement ceremony, officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m. June 12 at the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid on the Cal State Long Beach campus.<\/p>\n<p>College officials said the venue will open at 4:30 p.m. for graduates and guests.<\/p>\n<p>The commencement ceremony will be livestreamed on Compton College\u2019s YouTube channel at <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/channel\/UCd4v1ThUsDIYEh6z9TUaoIQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/channel\/UCd4v1ThUsDIYEh6z9TUaoIQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard began serving as president of Cal State Long Beach in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA proud first-generation college graduate and accomplished higher education leader, he has devoted more than 35 years to expanding student opportunity and success,\u201d Compton College officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He previously served as president of the University of Houston-Downtown and earlier worked as executive vice chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs for the California State University system, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure with the CSU system, Blanchard helped lead development of Graduation Initiative 2025, a long-term student success effort aimed at improving educational outcomes across the university system.<\/p>\n<p>He earned a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Georgia, a master\u2019s degree in education from McNeese State University and a bachelor\u2019s degree in speech pathology education from Xavier University of Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cal State Long Beach President Loren J. Blanchard will deliver the keynote address at Compton College\u2019s 2026 commencement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,1815,1352,131,133,132,6283,67497,225],"class_list":["post-313347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-college","tag-compton","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-president","tag-speak","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}