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Four selected as finalists for HFCC Presidency
3/2/2006
Four selected as finalists for HFCC Presidency
The Henry Ford Community College Board of Trustees has announced four finalists for the position of HFCC president. On Monday, Mar. 13 and Tuesday, Mar. 14, the Board of Trustees will interview the candidates.
The four finalists are: Dr. Roberto Aguero, Dr. Rose B. Bellanca, Dr Kathryn Jeffery and Dr. Gail Mee.
A presidential earch committee, under the leadership of the Board of Trustees, conducted a nationwide search for a new president to lead the 67-year-old college. Andrew A. Mazzara, HFCC's president since 1990, retired in December after a 40-year career in higher education.
Dr. Roberto Aguero currently is self employed. He has served as president of Austin Community College in Texas, which has an enrollment of 40,000 students. Before his presidency, Dr. Aguero was vice chancellor for educational affairs for seven years at Dallas County Community College District, which has an enrollment of 65,000 students. Before that, he was president for four years at Eastfield College, which is part of the Dallas County Community College District. Dr. Aguero holds a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Rose B. Bellanca has been president of St. Clair County Community College in Michigan since 2002. St. Clair has approximately 4,200 students enrolled in credit courses and 2,300 students in non-credit courses. Before assuming the presidency, Dr. Bellanca was the provost and chief academic officer at Macomb Community College in Michigan from 1998 to 2002. Macomb has an enrollment of more than 30,000 students. Prior to that, she was vice president for planning and development and assistant to the president at Macomb. Dr. Bellanca has an Ed.D. in administration and organizational studies from Wayne State University.
Dr. Kathryn Jeffery has been the chief campus administrator and provost for the West Charleston Campus of the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas since 2004. The West Charleston Campus enrolls 12,000 students, and the Community College of Southern Nevada, which serves a four-county area and is part of the University and Community College System in Nevada, has a total enrollment of 36,000 students. From 1994 to 2004, Dr. Jeffery was vice president of Columbia College in northern California, which enrolls 4,500 students. Dr. Jeffery also worked in the California Community Colleges' Chancellor's Office, the system office for 106 community colleges in the state, first as director of faculty and staff diversity, and then as dean of student services. She has a Ph.D. in educational administration and community college leadership from the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Gail Mee has been vice president of academic affairs at Mesa Community College in Arizona for nine years. Mesa has an enrollment of 28,000 students and is part of the Maricopa County Community College District, which enrolls more than 250,000 students each year. Before becoming a vice president, Dr. Mee was associate dean of instruction for mathematics and science at Mesa. She also served for seven years as director of institutional research and planning for Orange County Community College in Middletown, New York. Dr. Mee holds an Ed.D. in college teaching and academic leadership from the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.
HFCC staff and students and the community will have an opportunity to meet the candidates during open forums on Mar. 13 and 14 and provide written input to the Board of Trustees before a final selection is made. Open forums are scheduled as follows:
Monday, March 13 - 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Dr. Rose Bellanca
Monday, March 13 - 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. - Dr. Kathryn Jeffery
Tuesday, March 14 - 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Dr. Gail Mee
Tuesday, March 14 - 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. - Dr. Roberto Aguero
The open forums will be held in the Rosenau Board Room in HFCC's Administrative Services and Conference Center at 5101 Evergreen Road in Dearborn.
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