Patrick Perry, Vice Chancellor

Vice Chancellor Patrick Perry serves the Chancellor's Office and the California Community College system with a wealth of skills in managing and administering public sector Technology and Research programs. In his six years at the Chancellor's Office, Vice Chancellor Perry has performed a variety of innovative work in support of system information technology and research interests.

As the initial developer of the Federally-mandated "Student Right-To-Know Program" (SRTK), Perry transferred local responsibility of developing and submitting Federal data reports to a uniform, centralized system while concurrently creating a common dataset distributed to all colleges (the "Expanded Student Right-To-Know Dataset") used in longitudinal student cohort tracking by researchers statewide. The SRTK project was awarded the 1998 "Award of Distinction in Website Applications" and the 1999 "Award For Excellence in Technical Applications" by the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges. Encompassed in the project was extensive work in measuring transfer from the California Community College System using intersegmental data matching agreements with receiving institutions; this work has led to Perry co-authoring the most in-depth study performed to date on transfer in the system, the 2002 study on "Transfer Capacity and Readiness in the California Community Colleges", which includes systemwide methodologies for calculating transfer rates and measuring a students behavioral intent to transfer. Perry has lectured on this topic extensively throughout the State.

Vice Chancellor Perry also pioneered data warehousing efforts on the Chancellor's Office MIS Data System, prototyping the usage of Microsoft SQL Server and BrioQuery tools; the project has since become a Microsoft "Industry Solution" and a BrioQuery case study.

Prior to the Chancellor's Office, Perry served as the Manager of Information Systems for the Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education where he oversaw all database management, programming, and local/wide area networking. He regularly reported on State private postsecondary educational institutes' demography, finances, and placement and completion rates, and was a methodological contributor to the 1996 "Economic Study of the Proprietary Sector of Postsecondary Education in California".

Perry also served for six years as a Staff Economist for the Department of Boating and Waterways, where he oversaw all facets of an $8 million private loan program and administered the agencies local area network and databases.

A graduate of the University of Nevada (Economics), Perry has completed numerous marathons and travels extensively worldwide, having spent time in a variety of locations such as French Polynesia, Iceland, the Cook Islands, Benelux, and the Caribbean.