CEO on the move
Stephen Bloomberg He will serve as the next chancellor of the Kern Community College District in California, effective March 1. He is currently President of Southeastern Arkansas College.
Bloomberg has roots in the region, where he began his career in higher education in 1994 as director of workforce development at Cerro Coso Community College, one of the three colleges that make up the region.
Bloomberg, who has held his current position since 2018, has focused on increasing enrollment, especially high school students, workforce training, incarcerated students and student-athletes, according to a statement. Part of these efforts includes establishing student housing at Arkansas College and starting an athletics department as a recruiting tool. He led the effort to convert a former local nursing home into an apartment complex.
Steering the college through the Covid pandemic has also been a major effort for Bloomberg. “Surviving Covid has always been top of mind for me, and making sure we emerge from the pandemic as unscathed as possible,” he said in a statement.
Previously, Bloomberg was executive vice president at Oklahoma City Community College and also served there as vice president of community development.
New CEO
Scott W. Thayer He will become the 13th president of Cypress College in January. He has served as vice president of student services at San Bernardino Valley College since 2017, after also serving as its interim president.
Thayer has served as an administrator in the California Community College System for 24 years in a variety of executive leadership positions, including Vice President of Student Services at Cuyamaca College and Dean of Student Affairs at Pasadena City College.
An alumnus of Normandale Community College (MN), Thayer is known as an advocate for historically underrepresented students and an authority in student access, retention, equity, success, enrollment management and K-20 partnerships. He is a founding member of two non-profit organizations: Have Faith and Be Strong, a childhood cancer awareness organization, and the African American Male Education and Development Network (A²MEND), an organization created to promote institutional change within the community college system. To increase the success of African American students.
Glory
It’s not everyday that a street has a college chief executive named after him. But this week, the city of Detroit revealed Curtis L. Avery The street is named after the long-time Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD) chancellor.
The road that will bear the name of the secondary street is where the district office and Curtis L. Ivery Downtown Campus are located. The Detroit City Council hosted the unveiling on December 14 on Fort Street at Third Avenue.
Secondary street signs honor important Detroit figures. Each year, city leaders approve only five new cities. Ivery has served as a leader of WCCCD since 1995 and has received numerous awards and honors for the district’s work to promote student success and equity. In 2022, Avery received the inaugural CEO of the Year Award from the American Association of Community Colleges as part of its annual Awards of Excellence.
Margaret M. McMenamin, president of Union College of Union County, New Jersey (UCNJ), was honored this month by the Urban League of Union County as the 2023 recipient of the Ella S. Teal President Award. She was selected based on her transformational leadership at the college, where she served CEO since 2010, and her commitment to diversity and inclusion. The association cited UCSB’s Project Achievement Initiative, which combines advising with a programming component to help African-American male students succeed. The initiative has contributed to a more than five-fold increase in the graduation rate for African-American males over the past decade, according to UCSB.
Juan Salgadochancellor of Chicago City Colleges, this week received the 2023 Ohtli Award, one of the highest honors given to citizens living outside Mexico and honoring individuals who have empowered the lives of Mexican citizens living abroad.
The Consul General of Mexico in Chicago, Ambassador Reyna Torres Mendivil, presented the award to Salgado in a special ceremony attended by several state and local leaders, including Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Beatriz Ponce de León, Chicago’s Deputy Mayor for Immigrant Affairs. and the rights of migrants and refugees.
assignments
Dale Dan He was named chief diversity officer at Lansing Community College in Michigan. Most recently, Dan was chief diversity officer at Empire State University, part of the State University of New York system.
Osvaldo Gomez She is the new Director of Equal Employment Opportunity and Compliance/Title IX Coordinator at Houston Community College, a position similar to the position she held when she worked at Texas College from 2018 to 2021. Most recently, she was the District Director of Human Resources Officer Relations and Title IX Coordinator for Tarrant County College ( Texas).
Andy Green He now serves as Dean of Student Services at Gadsden State Community College in Alabama. He comes from Jacksonville State University, where he served for 18 years, most recently as assistant dean of honors and special programs.
Joe Hopkins, chief of campus police at the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), is now the college’s director of public safety and chief of police. The former Warwick Police Department detective captain joined CCRI in 2019 as commander and has served as its interim chief since August 2022.
Kim Van Savage She joins Piedmont Virginia Community College as the new associate vice president of human resources and chief human resources officer. Most recently, she served as Senior Director of Human Resources at Harvard Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Chris Williams She will serve as CIO at Lone Star College in Texas, starting Jan. 4. She comes from Rice University, where she was chief digital transformation officer and associate vice president for enterprise systems.
In the Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona, Lee Anne Boone He is now the Chief Operating Officer Heather Carter He is the Senior Deputy Advisor for Foreign Affairs. Boone was previously an assistant to the Maricopa County Sheriff. Carter served as Executive Vice President of Greater Phoenix Leadership.
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