Leadership & Experience you can Trust.
Dear Goleta Neighbors,
I ask for your vote to oversee and strengthen our prized community college. I am running for the SBCC Board of Trustees (District 2 seat) to offer leadership and experience to this invaluable community resource.
I have a lifetime career in higher education, working at UCSB for the last 27 years and several other colleges before that. I have demonstrated my commitment to higher education, and I am dedicated to the success of our City College. I have also been a student at SBCC, taking classes both for credit and through Extended Learning, and I'm currently enrolled in a yoga class at the Wake Campus.
I also have a deep commitment to public service. For the last 8 years I have served as a Goleta City Councilmember, and beyond that I have a long list of other community organizations that I have been engaged with, including in leadership roles.
Today, our treasured Santa Barbara City College is facing grave challenges. There are growing budget deficits, aging facilities, increasing costs, and declining enrollments. While the dedicated faculty and staff have done an admirable job of maintaining a high quality of education for it students, they should not be expected to bear all the weight of tightening budgets. There are also increased savings that can be realized by investigating class sizes, faculty-student ratios, and other administrative inefficiencies. I am ready to do what's necessary to study and evaluate the problems, and put in place a plan to fix what's needed.
Our community's college deserves better; and we deserve better. My career in higher education, paired with my experience in public service, have prepared me to tackle the challenges facing SBCC, including budget threats, deteriorating facilities, and skyrocketing costs. I am dedicated to making ours the best community college that it can be.
I would be honored to have your vote.
