Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins was appointed to serve as Chair of the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees by Governor Charlie Baker on August 28, 2019. A member of the Roxbury Community College (RCC) Board since 2013, Sheriff Tompkins served most recently as the Vice Chair of the board before this new appointment. RCC is a “co-educational public institution of higher education offering Associate Degrees and certificate programs with a primary objective of providing residents of the Commonwealth, specifically those individuals living in the greater Boston area, ‘optimum opportunity for access to a college education consistent with their interests and aptitudes and to reduce to a minimum economic, social, psychological and academic barriers to educational opportunity.’ The college’s goals are the result of ideas generated by and from the college community and reflect a response to the needs of the larger Roxbury community.”