{"id":333870,"date":"2026-05-27T03:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:14:23","slug":"bakersfield-college-announces-new-administrative-appointees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333870\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield College Announces New Administrative Appointees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, May 26, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Bakersfield College announced new appointees to three key administrative<br \/>\n                        positions \u2013 Vice President of Instruction, Athletic Director, and President. Each<br \/>\n                        candidate was selected after an extensive nationwide search, interview process, and<br \/>\n                        public forum where staff and community members could ask questions and provide feedback.<br \/>\n                        BC is proud to welcome each new addition to its leadership team and look forward to<br \/>\n                        the future they will help build.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stacey Pfluger, President of Bakersfield College<\/p>\n<p>                     <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026_DrPflugerPortraits-4.jpg\" alt=\"Woman wearing a blazer\" width=\"204\" height=\"272\"\/>On Tuesday, May 19th, KernCCD announced the appointment of Dr. Stacey Pfluger as the<br \/>\n                        next President of Bakersfield College. Dr. Pfluger has an extensive background in<br \/>\n                        higher education, including instruction, student services, academic programming, institutional<br \/>\n                        leadership, and more. She has also served as Interim President at BC for the last<br \/>\n                        year, where she has led with a strong commitment to students, staff, and the surrounding<br \/>\n                        community. We would like to congratulate Dr. Pfluger on her appointment as President,<br \/>\n                        and we are excited for the future of Bakersfield College under her leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jessica Wojtysiak, Vice President of Instruction<\/p>\n<p>                     <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jessica-wojtysiak-2024.jpg\" alt=\"woman smiling\" width=\"204\" height=\"272\"\/>On Thursday, May 21st, Bakersfield College announced the appointment of Dr. Jessica<br \/>\n                        Wojtysiak as the next Vice President on Instruction. Dr. Wojtysiak first joined BC<br \/>\n                        in 2015 as a tenure-track professor, and has since served in other roles, including<br \/>\n                        Dean of Instruction, Associate Vice President of Instruction, and Interim Vice President<br \/>\n                        of Instruction. She has dedicated her career to Bakersfield College and has played<br \/>\n                        an instrumental role in several programs, including Bridge to BC, the launch of BC<br \/>\n                        baccalaureate degree programs, and rural initiatives \u2013 direct support for our campuses<br \/>\n                        in Delano, Arvin, Wasco, and BC Southwest. We are proud to have Dr. Wojtysiak continue<br \/>\n                        her career at Bakersfield College and are appreciative of her dedication to our faculty<br \/>\n                        and students.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Kennedy, Athletic Director and Dean of Instruction for Kinesiology and Athletics<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, May 22nd, Bakersfield College announced the appointment of Lynn Kennedy<br \/>\n                        as the next Athletic Director and Dean of Instruction for Kinesiology and Athletics.<br \/>\n                        Mr. Kennedy has more than 30 years of experience and leadership across NCAA Division<br \/>\n                        I, II, NAIA and high school athletics. His various roles included head basketball<br \/>\n                        coach, adjunct faculty, compliance director, and he also spent 11 years with the Seattle<br \/>\n                        Seahawks. Bakersfield College is hosting a press conference to introduce him to the community<br \/>\n                           on Tuesday, June 2nd at 10:00AM in the Renegade Athletics Complex. All students, staff and community members are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>We are excited to have each of these individuals at Bakersfield College and we look<br \/>\n                        forward to the positive impact that they will have on students and the community in<br \/>\n                        the coming months, years and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, May 26, 2026 Recently, Bakersfield College announced new appointees to three key administrative positions \u2013 Vice President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-333870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333870","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=333870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}