(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba College Board has announced the hiring of Dr. Shouan Pan as its new chancellor following a 2 year search.

His term officially begins June 15th and he’s agreed to a 3 year-2 week contract worth $256,000 a year, plus, unspecified “benefits.”

Pan grew up in China, earning a bachelor’s degree in English from Hefei Polytechnic University, emigrated to the U.S. In 1985, earned a masters in education from Colorado State and a PHD in higher education from Iowa State.