[New post] Yuba College chancellor hopefuls have decades of experience
Carlos Guerrero posted: "Among the four finalists for the next chancellor of the Yuba Community College District, two have experience with Woodland and UC Davis. Dr. James Houpis, the interim chancellor, announced this past week that the Yuba Community College District search " Daily Democrat
Among the four finalists for the next chancellor of the Yuba Community College District, two have experience with Woodland and UC Davis.
Dr. James Houpis, the interim chancellor, announced this past week that the Yuba Community College District search committee has identified the finalists based on recommendations to the District Board of Trustees by an interview committee made up of faculty, staff, students, and community members.
Houpis has been serving as interim chancellor since the departure of Douglas Houston in June 2021 and will continue to do so until a new chancellor is hired. That is expected in another couple of months.
The finalists include Dr. Beatriz Espinoza, Dr. Eugene Giovannini, Dr. Shouan Pan and Dr. Wei Zhou, but only Espinoza and Zhou have backgrounds that include Woodland College and UC Davis.
Espinoza has had a 30-year career in higher education, which includes serving as a faculty member, researcher, counselor, director, dean, vice president, vice chancellor and president/CEO across six states.
Dr. Beatriz Espinoza. (Courtesy)
In 2011, Espinoza was vice chancellor of educational planning and services for YCCD. She is a first-generation college student with the College Assistance Migrant Program and completed her undergraduate studies in psychology at UT-Pan American, her master's and doctor's degrees in rehabilitation psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a post-doctorate in community college leadership at the University of Texas-Austin, and served as a Kellogg Fellow with the Minority Serving Institutions higher education leadership program.
Zhou is a graduate of the UC Davis Center for Community College Leadership and Research Wheelhouse Fellow and California Community College Inaugural CEO Leadership Academy.
Zhou received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin's doctoral program in education and has California community college administrative experience in multi-college districts and Hispanic Serving Institutions serving large geographical areas including positions as dean of Math, Science and Engineering at Evergreen Valley College, vice president for Academic Affairs at Copper Mountain College, vice president of Instruction and interim president at Cuyamaca College.
Dr. Wei Zhou. (Courtesy)
He also served as president of Crafton Hills College and assistant superintendent/vice president of Academic Affairs at Cerritos College.
According to YCCD officials, Zhou helped develop programming and services for colleges like Butte, Columbia and Woodland community colleges serving rural communities with a geographically dispersed population.
Zhou has also led statewide teams to help California community colleges with accreditation, integrated planning, enrollment management, staff and organizational development, instructional and student support program development, implementation of Guided Pathways framework, and distance education.
Giovannini has 14 years of experience as a community college president and six years of experience as chancellor of a multi-campus community college.
Dr. Eugene Giovannini. (Courtesy)
In his latest position as Chancellor of Tarrant County College District, Giovannini oversaw six campuses. He also served the Maricopa County Community College District in Arizona as founding president of Maricopa Corporate College in Scottsdale, including 11 years as president of Gateway Community College in Phoenix.
Giovannini began his community college career at Virginia's Eastern Shore Community College as an instructor before becoming chairman of Office Technologies at Broome Community College in New York.
He served as regional dean of Instructional Affairs and Student Services at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana. Giovannini also was vice President at Burlington County College in New Jersey. He served as past chairman of the Board for the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship and past board member of the American Association of Community Colleges.
Pan is a recognized community college leader, with teaching, student services, and administrative experience in diverse community college settings.
Dr. Shouan Pan. (Courtesy)
Pan has also held several senior-level positions, including as chancellor of Seattle Colleges, president of Mesa Community College, provost of Broward College, South Campus, executive dean of Instruction and Student Services at Florida State College at Jacksonville, and others.
As a final step in the selection process, the public, staff and students are invited to attend public forums to be held beginning Monday, April 3, and again on Wednesday, April 5, at Woodland Community College. Other forums are scheduled in Marysville.
The public forums will give people an opportunity to meet each finalist, learn about their vision for the district, and answer questions.
The forums can be attended in person or virtually via Zoom using Yuba College Forums Zoom Link or Woodland Community College Forum Zoom Link. All forums in Woodland will be in the Community Room of Building 800 at Woodland Community College, 2300 E. Gibson Road.
Zhou will have his Woodland forum at 3 p.m. Monday, April 3. He will be followed by Giovannini at 4 p.m., with Espinoza concluding the meetings at 5 p.m.
Pan will be available to meet with people in Woodland at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5.
According to a press statement from Yuba College district officials, trustees anticipate hiring the new chancellor by the spring of this year.
Trustees hired search firm PPL, Inc., to lead the search for a permanent chancellor and appointed the 14-member search committee.
Currently serving as interim president at Woodland College is Dr. Santanu Bandyopadhyay, who was selected in late January to replace Art Pimentel.
Pimentel left on Dec. 22, 2022, to assume the presidency of Folsom Lake College in the Los Rios Community College District. Pimentel had been president of the Woodland school since 2019.
The Yuba Community College District spans eight counties and nearly 4,192 square miles of territory in rural, north-central California.
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