Big Bend Community College President Dr. Bill Bonaudi was awarded the Pacific Regional Chief Executive Officer Award by the Association of Community College Trustees.
BBCC Trustees Bob Holloway, Felix Ramon, Katherine Kenison, Cecilia DeLuna-Gaeta and Mike Blakely nominated Bonaudi, who has been the BBCC president since 1995.
Bonaudi received formal recognition at the ACCT national conference in Seattle. He will also be considered for the national Marie Y. Martin Chief Executive Officer Award.
Dr. Barbara Kavalier has been appointed associate vice president for student services at Tacoma Community College. Kavalier brings more than 19 years of experience as a community college administrator and an energetic vision for student services.
Kavalier most recently served as dean/executive assistant to the president at Mountain View College (MVC), one of seven colleges within the Dallas County Community College District in Dallas, Texas. She also held the position of dean of planning and research for institutional effectiveness.
Prior to her role as dean of institutional effectiveness, Kavalier served more than 10 years as a student services administrator within the Dallas district, helping to design a nationally recognized program for at-risk students and implementing a one-stop registration system.
Kavalier received her bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University, where she majored in education and minored in English and speech communication, and her master’s degree in business and human relations from Amberton University. She completed her doctorate in educational administration at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) with a specialization in community college leadership.
As Senior Roueche Fellow at UT, she collaborated on several national initiatives and participated in researching and writing about current community college issues. In addition to numerous publications in journals, Kavalier is the co-author of The Entrepreneurial Community College and contributed a chapter in The Leadership Dialogues.
Rachel Ruiz has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Clark College.
Ruiz comes from San Diego Mesa College where she was dean of student development and matriculation for the past four years.
Ruiz holds master’s degree in public administration and higher education from Harvard University and a doctoral degree in administration from the University of Texas.
From June 28 through July 1 teams of cross-sector math educators/ instructors rolled up their collective sleeves to demonstrate promising, innovative applications of the College Readiness Standards at the Summer Math Institute.
Dr. Uri Treisman and Dr. Susan Hudson Hull of the University of Texas at Austin Charles A. Dana Center, Dr. Kurt Kreith, co-director of the California Mathematics Project, and a host of Washington state content experts were on hand to add to and guide the rich discussions, workshops and plenary sessions.
The Transition Math Project is a collaborative initiative involving two and four-year colleges, K-12, and business / industry. Since the first Institute in August 2004, TMP staff members have met with hundreds of Washington’s math and non-math educators from all sectors who have refined, reviewed and revamped the project’s College Readiness Standards. This second intensive multi-day math institute allowed a cross-sector group of math educators and instructors to:
The TMP Web site features the ongoing work of Institute attendees. Updates will be frequent so check back often.
An article written by SBCTC Correctional Education Program Administrator Kathy Goebel was featured in the latest edition of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy.
Entitled “ Re-Entry and Corrections Education,” the article discusses the importance of addressing the educational needs of ex-offenders as they transition back to the community. Goebel states that “inmates who address their educational needs during confinement do better when they return to their families and community and are significantly less likely to be reconvicted.”
The full article can be found on the NCSALL Web site.
Rhonda Taylor, nursing program coordinator at Yakima Valley Community College, was appointed to the Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. Her appointment is effective through June 2009.
Roy Flores, vice president for student development services at North Seattle Community College, will participant in the state’s extensive review of its education system and ways to improve it.
Flores is one of two community college administrations on the 22-member Higher Education Advisory Committee. The steering committee will provide recommendations to the Washington Learns Steering Committee, an education finance study that was created by the Legislature last session and is chaired by the Governor.
Working closely with the Advisory Committees, the steering committee will identify inefficiencies and gaps in the state’s education system, define a high quality education system, and determine what resources are needed to provide Washingtonians with the best education system in the world.
SBCTC Economic Development Policy Associate Carolyn Cummins was selected by the National Council for Continuing Education and Training (NCCET) for their National Leadership Award – Outside the Field category.
As the SBCTC liaison to the Washington Continuing Education Council, Cummins has shown extraordinary leadership by getting the council focused on several issues around common definitions and strategic outcomes measures, out of district contracting guidelines, and statewide reaction to the “Reed Report.”
Tacoma Community College’s WayneWilliams, President of the NCCET and one of the co-nominators for the award, expressed his congratulations by stating, “It’s particularly thrilling for me as president to congratulate someone from Washington that I’ve had the honor of working with; and a talent I greatly respect and appreciate. There are many people across the country making outstanding contributions but know that your efforts stood above them all – we thank you.”
Cummins will receive the honor in Jacksonville in October.