Sedgwick L. Harris is officially Bristol Community College’s fifth president since its founding in 1965. 

On Friday, Sept. 26, Harris took to the stage in the Margaret L. Jackson Arts Center Theater flanked by Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler, the state’s Commissioner of Higher Education Noe Ortega, and Bristol’s Board of Trustees Chairwoman Joan M. Medeiros.

Bristol’s faculty, students, community members, alumni, and color guard attended the live-streamed inauguration ceremony, and looked on with state legislators and higher education institutional delegates.

Harris’s wife, Jamica, his daughter, Sedreyana, and son, Jametric helped facilitate the official investiture and oath of office, administered by Ortega and Tutwiler. Harris was presented with the presidential medallion to be worn at ceremonial occasions.

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