SAN ANTONIO – After more than a decade leading the Alamo Colleges, Chancellor Bruce Leslie announced Monday night that he will retire in 2018.
Leslie began work at the community college district on Nov. 1, 2006.
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During his time as leader, he has overseen the district’s five colleges -- San Antonio, Palo Alto, Northwest Vista, Northeast Lakeview and St. Phillip’s- - and its nearly 60,000 students.
In the past decade, the budget for the colleges has increased from just over $450 million to almost $899 million in 2016-17, the district said. Degrees conferred also jumped dramatically from 3,700 in 2005-06 to almost 13,000 last year.
“What a joy it has been to share with you all the leadership of this amazing college system that has such high value and quality educational life and career impacts on the social, personal and economic lives of the people and communities,” Leslie said in a statement.
In January, the district received a warning from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges that stated San Antonio, St. Phillip’s and Northwest Vista colleges were being placed on a 12-month warning period.
The warning “is an official sanction imposed when an institution is found to be out of compliance with the Principles of Accreditation,” according to the district.
The issue focuses on the independence between the individual colleges and the district.
"NVC will be required to collect and submit additional documentation which supports our operating as an individually accredited institution," according to the college's website.
A similar message was posted on the San Antonio College website.
St. Phillip's was denied re-accreditation status, the school said on its website.
It's accreditation will be reviewed again by the SACSCOC board of trustees at the end of the year.
Leslie previously served as chancellor at the Houston Community College System, the Connecticut Community-Technical Colleges and as president of Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York.
He will retire on Sept. 30, 2018.
