SACLN Members
Rita Cepeda
rcepeda@sdccd.edu
Rita M. Cepeda has served since July 2005 as president of San Diego Mesa College, and is its first Latina president. She began her career in the community colleges in 1980 and has served as a college president for the past ten years. A naturalized citizen, Dr. Cepeda came to the United States when she was 11, learning English as a second language. She is a product of the California public school system. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications disorders and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from California State University Long Beach. Rita went on to earn a doctorate of education from the University of Southern California. Her professional affiliations include: Board Member, California Basic Skills Initiative, and the Community College Advisory Committee on Legislation, the Intersegmental Coordinating Council and the Latina Leadership Network of the California Community Colleges. Locally, President Cepeda sits on numerous community boards and committees, including San Diego United Way, the San Diego Dropout Task Force, the Sand Diego Youth Services Council, San Diego Workforce Partnership and the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Regional Economic Prosperity Strategy Committee. In November 2008, she received the prestigious “Women Who Mean Business Award” for the San Diego Business Journal followed by the 2008 National Diversity Award from Minority Access Inc.
John Nixon
JNixon@MtSAC.edu
Dr. John S. Nixon is the eighth President/CEO of Mt. San Antonio College. He has both policy and management oversight responsibility for California’s largest single-campus community college district. The institution has some 2,900 employees and serves over 65,000 students annually on a 420-acre campus, located in Walnut, CA. Dr. Nixon started his tenure at the College in 2004 as Vice President of Instruction. He oversaw all instructional programs and services, including seven academic divisions with 2,270 full- and part-time faculty members. He later served as Interim President in July 2006 and immediately began expanding relationships and partnerships with local government, business, community, nonprofit and educational organizations and leaders. A 30-year veteran in education, John previously served as Vice President of Academic Affairs at Santa Ana College for 12 years, where he supervised nine academic divisions as well as counseling services and learning resources. He also served for a year as Santa Ana’s Interim President in 1998 and as Associate Dean of Humanities and Assistant Dean of Continuing Education. As a career educator, Dr. Nixon taught English and English as a Second Language at USC, and at UC Irvine, Santiago Canyon College, and Irvine Valley College. He also taught for the Huntington Beach Union High School District, at Ocean View High School, and at the University of Tunis as a Peace Corps volunteer. Involved in community affairs, Dr. Nixon has served on the board of directors for the Orange County Community Health Care Clinics, the Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross, and the Orange County Marine Institute. In addition, he has held statewide leadership roles, including co-chair of the System Advisory Committee on Curriculum, the statewide Basic Skills Advisory Committee, and as President of the California Community College Chief Instructional Officers Association. John holds bachelor and master degrees in English from UC Irvine, and a doctorate in English from USC. He has also co-authored two English textbooks.
Pam Deegan
pdeegan@miracosta.edu
Pam Deegan began her career at California State University, Los Angeles , where she taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in kinesiology and exercise physiology. She then began her career in the California Community College system at Irvine Valley College as a full-time faculty member. Pam has served over 25 years in the California Community College system and over 32 years in higher education. 17 of those years were as a faculty member, while 15 years have been as an administrator. This has included service as Dean of Instruction at Irvine Valley College and Santiago Canyon College, and Vice President of Instruction at Miramar College, Mt. San Jacinto College, and MiraCosta College.Vice President Deegan is proud of her service to the statewide system, as an advocate and leader. In addition to providing statewide leadership in terms of workshops, she served as president of the Chief Instructional Officers in 2005-6 (CIOs) and as a member of the State Chancellor’s Consultation Council. Pam is very proud of perhaps her most notable contribution to the state of California, which was her collaboration as CIO president with the CSSO president, Robin Richards, and Academic Senate President, Ian Walton to develop the idea and plan for the Basic Skills Initiative (BSI). Pam’s commitment to leadership was rewarded with the 2007 Association of California Community College Administrators (ACCCC) Award for Administrative Excellence.
Norman Fujimoto
Fujimoto_Norman@sac.edu
Norman Y. Fujimoto currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Santa Ana College beginning in January 2007. Previously he served as the Dean of Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer and Information Sciences at Cerritos College from August 1994 to January 2007. Vice President Fujimoto began his career in 1974 teaching in the high school and progressed to the position of principal before moving the Cerritos College. Norman completed his Bachelors of Arts degree in Chemistry at Loma Linda University followed by a Master of Arts in Teaching with an emphasis in Chemistry from Andrews University.
Robin Richards
Richards@siskiyous.edu
Robin Richards has served as the Vice President for Student Services at College of the Siskiyous for the past 14 years. She came to the College having served eight years as the Director of Research & Planning for the Yosemite Community College District in Modesto, and the transition both to student services and to a single campus district has been exciting and energizing. Siskiyous’s rural campus (about 3500 students/2500 FTES) is in a beautiful area, and Dr. Richards feels it is truly a joy to come to work every day. Her educational background is far from the “usual” for community college staff. She graduated with both a Doctor of Pharmacy and Masters of Pharmaceutical Sciences, but only worked in the field for about six months, (hence her passion to promote numerous career “exploration” opportunities to her students before they make their educational major decisions). Having been in community colleges for the past 27 years, Robin can say from her experience that the Basic Skills Initiative is, without a doubt, one of the best programs we have produced to make a difference statewide for our students, and she is excited about the opportunity to again serve on the BSI Steering Committee.
Diego Navarro
diego@cabrillo.edu
Diego Navarro is the Founder and Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation funded project, the Digital Bridge Academy (DBA), which serves under-prepared Latino students and is in the process of being replicated in community colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area serving urban African-American, Latino and Asian students. The DBA is also funded by the James Irvine, the David and Lucile Packard, the William and Flora Hewlett, and the Walter S. Johnson Foundations. Diego has been teaching at Cabrillo College since 2002 and is the lead DBA faculty member. Diego started college at Pasadena City College. He worked 32 hours a week as a computer support specialist at Bank of America to pay his way through school. He began his professional career as a community organizer for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker humanitarian aid organization while he was in his third year in college. Diego has over twenty years experience in research and management positions in the computer industry with Hewlett Packard Labs, Apple Computer, NCR Corporation, and CEO of two start-up high-tech companies. Diego received his master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business, and holds an undergraduate degree in Information Systems from Antioch University.
Peter White
pwhite@sdccd.edu
Peter White is Vice President of Student Services at San Diego City College, where he has served since June 2008. He has also served as the chief student services officer at San Diego Miramar College (2006-2008) and Grossmont College (1995-2006) and has represented the association of vice presidents of student services on statewide committees related to the Basic Skills Initiative, Matriculation, and the systemwide Strategic Plan. Vice President White’s community college experience includes ten years (1985-95) at the state Chancellor’s Office, where he worked with the EOPS program and later served as the statewide Matriculation Coordinator. Peter’s undergraduate degree is from the University of California at Riverside and his graduate degree is from the University of California at Los Angeles. At both levels, his studies included extensive academic and work experience in Spain, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Central America.
Rose Myers (alternate)
myersrose@fhda.edu
Mark Wade Lieu
mwlieu@asccc.org
Mark Wade Lieu served on the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate for seven years before stepping into the role of President in July, 2007. As President, he represents the more than sixty thousand California community college faculty on academic and professional matters at the Board of Governors and Consultation Council. Mark is a San Francisco native and resident and a committed user of public transportation. He has taught English as a Second Language courses at Ohlone College since 1989, and he applied for a job at Ohlone only because the college was accessible through the BART train system. Traveling on public transportation is ideally suited for one of his passions, reading, but less so for another, singing. In addition to an MA-TESL from San Francisco State University, Mark also has an MA in instructional technology. He is the webmaster for his state professional organization, CATESOL, and he has developed web-based grammar units for his and other students.
Jane Patton
Jane_patton@wvm.edu
Jane Patton is Vice President of the Academic Senate for CCC. She teaches Communication Studies at Mission College and holds an MA in Communication and an Ed.D. in Higher Education (USC) (specialized in language & cultural issues in higher ed). Ms. Patton has served over 30 years in education at the secondary, community college, and university levels.
Barbara Illowsky
illowskybarbara@deanza.edu
Barbara Illowsky is a mathematics and statistics professor at De Anza College. She is president-elect of CMC^3 – North and on the Executive Board of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. Dr. Illowsky has three professional passions: improving success for students with basic skills needs, improving elementary statistics education, and decreasing the cost of education to make it affordable for all. She has combined these passions as former Project Director for the California Basic Skills Initiative and co-author of a free Open Educational Resource statistics textbook used around the country.
Kathy Molloy
molloy@sbcc.edu
Kathy Molloy has taught at the high school level and in noncredit ESL and basic skills in community colleges. Most of her 30+ years of teaching experience has been at Santa Barbara City College, where she holds a joint position in English and English Skills, teaching developmental reading and writing courses and college level composition. She has been involved with high school articulation and teacher training as the Director of Composition and, as the Academic Senate President in 2005-07, she led the college wide effort to plan and implement SBCC’s Student Success Initiative, now known as the Partnership for Student Success. As SBCC’s Basic Skills Coordinator, she continues to lead the Partnership, and in February 2009, she was appointed to the position of statewide BSI Regional Workshop Coordinator by the ASCCC.
Anniqua Rana
rana@smccd.edu
As a Professor of ESL/English, ESL Department Coordinator at Cañada College, and a Project Coordinator for the Basic Skills Initiative (2008), Anniqua has collaborated with colleagues to achieve student success. Her research includes the impact of Supplemental Instruction on ESL students at community college. She has consulted with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan to incorporate Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in Higher Education in Pakistan (2005-2007). Her doctoral studies at the University of San Francisco focused on the impact of technology on women in Higher Education in Pakistan.
Nancy Cook
ncook@sierracollege.edu
Sacramento/Central Valley Network Coordinator
Nancy Cook is the coordinator of the Learning Center and the Academic Foundations Program (basic skills) at Sierra College in Rocklin. Nancy played a major role in creating the Academic Foundations Program at Sierra. This developmental education program includes courses, support services, and special programs and projects all designed to help increase the success rate of students with basic skills needs. To further enhance student success, Nancy also led efforts to implement a series of Student Success Workshops, and she facilitated the combination of several services into one user-friendly, centralized Learning Center. Also under Nancy’s leadership, Sierra College won the Dale Tillery Award for Educational Leadership for the Academic Foundation Program’s Equity Plan, which co-mingled developmental and underrepresented student needs in order to enhance the success of both.During the past two years, Nancy has worked with the state Basic Skills Initiative, serving in 2007 as a presenter at Regional Meetings and then in 2008 as a Project Coordinator. Nancy received her BA degree in English from Sterling College and her MA degree in English from Fort Hays State University, both in Kansas.
Daryl Kinney
kinneyd@lacitycollege.edu
Los Angeles Area Network Coordinator
Daryl Kinney is an Associate Professor of ESL at Los Angeles City College (LACC). A faculty member since 1996, Dr. Kinney has been the coordinator of the Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) program at LACC since 2004. She was a trainer for the Basic Skills Initiative during Phase II and participated in several workshops assisting colleges with completing the Basic Skills Self-Assessment tool. She serves on several committees in the Los Angeles Community College District working to increase student success at all nine colleges in the district.
Lisa Brewster
lbrewste@sdccd.edu
Lisa Brewster is a Professor of Communication at San Diego Miramar College. A faculty member since 1999, she has served many roles on campus including serving as the Title III Activity Director, the SLOAC Coordinator and the Basic Skills Coordinator. She has worked on many projects on her campus relating to student learning and student success. During her tenure at Miramar, she also presented at multiple state and national conferences on topics relating to Student Learning and Assessing Student Learning. She received her PhD in Education from Capella University.
Bob Gabriner
gabriner@sfsu.edu
Dr. Bob Gabriner has been with the California community colleges for almost 40 years, 22 years as a history instructor, and 17 years as an administrator at City College of San Francisco. He has also been in the leadership of the RP Group since 1997 and is currently the Director of the RP’s Mertes-award winning Center For Student Success. Bob has just begun another career as the director of a new San Francisco State University doctoral program in educational leadership for community colleges and schools. The program aims to help to train and educate the next generation of education leaders in the Bay Area. He intends to continue his work with the RP Group and the Center for Student Success.
Rob Johnstone
johnstoner@smccd.edu
Dr. Rob Johnstone is Dean of Planning, Research, & Institutional Effectiveness at Skyline College. Since shifting from industry in 2002, he served as a College Researcher and Chief Instructional Officer at Foothill College, and has recently re-focused his work in the arena of Research & Planning with his 2008 move to Skyline College. Dr. Johnstone additionally serves as a Vice President of the Research & Planning (RP) Group of California, and has worked on numerous Center for Student Success / RP projects. These include the Transfer Leadership Center grant and currently serving as project Director for a Hewlett Foundation planning grant investigating the capacity for colleges to utilize outcomes data and evidence to strategically optimize decision-making. He has also worked with the League for Innovation as a Board Representative and with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office on the System Strategic Plan’s Action Planning Group and the Accountability for Reporting in the Community Colleges (ARCC)’s Technical Advisory Group. Dr. Johnstone was Lead Author of the Return on Investment section and a Contributing Author for the Literature Review section of the recent manuscript “Basic Skills as a Foundation for Student Success in California Community Colleges,” which is the product of Phase I of the California Community Colleges’ Basic Skills Initiative. He also served as project administrator for Phases II & III of the Basic Skills Initiative, in which professional development utilizing the Phase I findings was provided to all 109 California Community Colleges. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and the Law from the University of Oregon, a M.A. in Psychology from San Jose State University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.
Laura Hope
laura.hope@chaffey.edu
Laura Hope has been a community college educator and leader at Chaffey College for the past twenty years. During that time, she has served students as a professor of English, teaching foundation, transfer, and honors courses. Outside of the classroom, Ms. Hope has worked in various leadership capacities. She has served as the English, ESL, modern languages, and reading coordinator, Puente English instructor and co-coordinator, student learning outcomes coordinator, and Interim Dean of Language Arts. The primary focus of her career has related to the Basic Skills Transformation at Chaffey College, which has garnered both statewide and national attention for its results on student achievement. She was selected from faculty to lead the implementation of the Success Centers and has worked as their coordinator since their inception in 2000. As part of her commitment to the Chaffey College and community college missions, Ms. Hope initiated a Success Center in the California Institution for Women in Chino in 2005 to support an Associate’s Degree program for female inmates, which earned the Chancellor’s Student Success Award in 2008. Most recently, she was a contributing writer for “Basic Skills as a Foundation for Student Success,” a literature review on effective developmental education practices. Additionally, she has participated in visiting teams to eight community colleges to evaluate the effectiveness of their basic skills programs. Currently, she is collaborating with researchers from the Center for Student Success on publications exploring interventions that support high school to college transitions and another on contextual learning strategies. Laura is currently working toward a doctoral degree in community college leadership at Walden University and works at Chaffey as the Interim Dean of Instructional Support.
Tom deWit
tdewit@chabotcollege.edu
Tom deWit has been teaching developmental and college-level English at Chabot College for 20 years, and he is lead instructor in the Daraja learning community for African American students. As Co-Chair of Chabot’s SPECC project, Tom co-facilitated a faculty inquiry group on integrating attention to basic skills across the disciplines and served as the producer for several video inquiries into student learning, including Reading Between the Lives. He has served as chair of Program Review and Enrollment Management committees, Interim Dean of Language Arts, and chief negotiator for the Chabot -Las Positas Faculty Association. He has given conference presentations on culturally responsive classroom practices, deep reading, program design, equity, community building, enrollment management, and data analysis. He is currently co-chairing a statewide effort to expand the Umoja Community, which promotes student success through culturally responsive curricula and pedagogy. Tom holds a MA in English from the University of Virginia.
Lynn Wright
lmwright@pasadena.edu
Lynn Wright (PhD, English) currently serves as the Basic Skills Coordinator at Pasadena City College. She is also the college’s Accreditation Self Study Coordinator, a founding member and former co-director of the Teaching and Learning Center, and a member of the English Division’s faculty. Some of her professional interests are the theory and practice of English Composition, faculty professional development/learning theories, and basic skills issues and strategies, including the use of learning communities and first-year experience programs. At the statewide level, she is a member of the CCC BSI Action Planning Group and a 2009 regional workshop coordinator. Her recent publications include “Making Pre-Algebra Meaningful” in New Directions for Community Colleges (co-authored with Brock Klein, Fall 2008) and Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and The Female Spectator (co-edited with Donald J. Newman, Bucknell/Associated University Presses, 2006).
Linda Collins
lcollins@careerladdersproject.org
Linda Collins, Executive Director of the Career Ladders Project for the California Community Colleges (CCC), which fosters educational and career advancement for Californians. Linda has extensive experience with policy development and educational leadership, having worked closely with the Board of Governors to develop the statewide Ladders of Opportunity initiative and having served two terms as President of the Academic Senate for CCC. She served on the CCC System Strategic Planning Steering Committee and has represented the system on numerous state committees and task forces. Ms. Collins worked with the CCC System Office to develop the recently launched Career Advancement Academies (CAA) state demonstration project designed to connect underprepared, undermployed youth and adults to high wage career pathways; the Career Ladders Project provides strategic support and assistance to that effort. Linda is frequently asked to consult on state and national policy efforts; she currently serves on the Executive Committee of the California EDGE Campaign, a non-partisan coalition focused on improving workforce development in California.
Rose Asera
Asera@carnegiefoundation.org
Rose Asera directs the project Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC). From 1995-1999 she was director of research and evaluation at the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin and studied high-performing schools serving high poverty populations. She was the researcher with Uri Treisman at the University of California, Berkeley from 1988-1991. From 1992-1994 she lived in Uganda, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute of Teacher Education at Kyambogo and worked with UNICEF on development of health education materials.
Estela Bensimon
bensimon@usc.edu
Estela Mara Bensimon is a professor of higher education and, with Professor Alicia C. Dowd, Co-directs the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the USC Rossier School of Education. She and her colleagues at CUE design and field-test inquiry tools and methods associated with the CUE Equity Approach to organizational learning and change. Dr. Bensimon has written books, journal articles, and book chapters based on empirical and theoretical studies of college presidents, department chairs, administrative teams, organizational learning and change, post-tenure review, performance-based compensation, and racial and gender equity. She earned her doctorate in Higher Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Carole Bogue-Feinour
cbfeinour@CCCCO.edu
Carole Bogue-Feinour serves as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the California Community Colleges. Prior to this position she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Monterey Peninsula College from 1996 – 2005. Previously, Dr. Bogue-Feinour served as Vice President of Instruction for Canada College for six years, and she held various administrative and faculty positions in the California Community Colleges focusing on developmental education. She was instrumental in creating and shaping the Higher Educational Learning Partners (HELP) consortium that includes California State University, Monterey Bay and four regional community colleges. Carole is a lifetime member of the College Reading and Learning Association. Under the direction of Vice Chancellor Bogue-Feinour, the Academic Affairs Division is focused on the delivery of leadership and technical assistance, enhancing the capacity of the community colleges in the areas of academic planning, course and program approval, transfer and articulation, review and approval of noncredit instruction, and partnerships with K-12 and four-year institutions. She received her B.A. from Duchesne College in Omaha, Nebraska, her M.S. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
Juan Cruz
JCRUZ@CCCCO.edu
Gary Colombo
GColombo@email.laccd.edu
Gary Colombo was appointed Vice Chancellor of Institutional Effectiveness for the Los Angeles Community College District in August 2007, after having served for two years in the same capacity as Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor. Prior to joining the administration, he was a long-time faculty leader at Los Angeles City College where he served as President of the Academic Senate, Chair of the Department of English and ESL, and Director of the college’s honors program. An authority in the fields of student success and basic skills instruction, Gary began his career as coordinator of UCLA’s Freshman Summer and Freshman Preparatory Programs in the 1980s. He is also the author of three college textbooks, including one of the nation’s first multi-cultural anthologies, Rereading America, which has been used by more than 1,000 colleges and universities since its appearance in 1989.
Deborah Harrington (Chair)
dharrington@email.laccd.edu
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Deborah L. Harrington, 2009 CCC BSI Project Director, is the Dean for Institutional Effectiveness and Student Success at the Los Angeles Community College District. Serving as ex officio chair of the LACCD Student Success Initiative Steering Committee, the Student Learning Outcomes Advisory Council, the Professional Development SSI Taskforce, and the Transfer Advisory Council, Deborah brings together faculty and administrative staff to initiate the design and implementation of programs that effectively support student equity, access, persistence, and success across the nine colleges. Deborah additionally is the District Liaison for the California Basic Skills Initiative as well as the LACCD representative for the K20 California Educational Technology Collaborative and the California Community Colleges Open Education Resources Steering Committee. Deborah has taught English in California community colleges since 1985 and has also served as Puente Coordinator at Riverside Community College as well as Writing Center Director, STARS FIPSE Director, and Professional Development Director at Los Angeles Valley College. Additionally, she has been a Dean of Humanities and Social Science and a Dean of Instructional Resources and Extended Services in the San Bernardino and Antelope Valley College Districts. Deborah received her BA in English from the University of California, Los Angeles and her MA in English from California State University, Northridge.
Julie Adams (Resource Member) Julie@asccc.org
Julie Adams has been with the Academic Senate since 1996. As Executive Director, Ms. Adams is responsible for the organizational oversight of the Academic Senate, which includes supporting the 14 member executive committee, maintaining the operational integrity of the Senate, overseeing all of its grants, and providing the continuity for future executive committee members. Likewise, she works to ensure that the Senate is responsive to the needs of faculty in the field by tracking policy issues relating to academic and professional matters as well as identifying areas of major concerns. On a personal note, Julie is working on her doctorate in Public Policy.
W. Norton Grubb (Resource Member) wngrubb@berkeley.edu
W. Norton Grubb is a professor and the David Gardner Chair in Higher Education at the School of Education, the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also the Faculty Coordinator for the Principal Leadership Institute, a program preparing leaders for urban schools. His interests include higher education, especially community colleges; the effects of resources in schools; the occupational roles of education; secondary schools and their reforms; and equity issues. His most recent book is about improved approaches to school finance, resources, and equity in both resources and outcomes, titled The Money Myth: School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity, published by Russell Sage Foundation in January 2009. His prior book (with Marvin Lazerson) is about the occupational transformations of American schooling: The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling (Harvard University Press, 2004, 2007). He received his doctorate in economics from Harvard University in 1975.
Tina Christie (Resource Member) Tina.christie@cgu.edu
Christina (Tina) Christie is an Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Masters of Arts Program in Psychology and Evaluation, and Associate Director of the Institute of Organizational and Program Evaluation Research in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. Her research, which has been supported by a variety of funding sources including the Haynes Foundation, focuses on investigating the relationship between evaluation theory and practice and issues related to the development of descriptive theories of evaluation. She has also received funding from other agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education, the Hewlett and Irvine Foundations, and First 5 Los Angeles to evaluate social, education, and health behavior programs targeting high-risk and underrepresented populations. Dr. Christie co-founded the Southern California Evaluation Association, a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association, is the current Chair of the Research on Evaluation Division and former Chair of the Theories of Evaluation Division of the American Evaluation Association. In 2004, Dr. Christie received the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Early Career Achievement Award.
Pat James (Resource Member) pjames@msjc.edu
Pat James is the Dean of Library and Technology at Mt. San Jacinto College. She additionally serves as co-Director of the @ One Project. @ONE Provides technology training and support to faculty and staff at all 110 California Community Colleges. Dean James has an extensive background in learning technology, including an M.A. in Instructional Design; she additionally holds a B.A. in Psychology. As an educational consultant specializing in uses of technology in instruction, Pat focuses on distance learning and DE program planning and is able to assist schools wanting to develop distance learning programs. She also trains new online instructors in how to teach online and transfer their traditional courses to the DE environment.
John Whitmer (Resource Member) jwhitmer@cvc.edu
John Whitmer is Director of the CVC, California Virtual Campus, hosted by Butte College. The CVC catalog of distance-education programs and courses continues the work of its predecessor – the California Virtual University Website – in making information available about distance-learning opportunities at California institutions of higher education. John previously served as the Director of the @ONE Project at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose. John has been involved in technology training and support for well over a decade, and worked with training formats ranging from self-paced tutorials to online instructor-led workshops. John has a background in Technology as well as Social Science, with a degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from UC-Davis.
