Los Rios Chancellor Search

The Los Rios Community College District enjoys a positive reputation, and numerous benefits are associated with its strengths in many areas. Among those are the following:

• The over-arching strategic goals of Los Rios give focus for district-wide planning, implementing, and evaluating annual and multi-year activities that maximize student access and success; ensure equitable academic achievement; provide workforce and economic development programs that respond to local industry; support the guided pathways framework to reduce equity gaps; provide exemplary teaching and learning; and strengthen organizational effectiveness. Positive outcomes associated with ACCJC’s comprehensive accreditation evaluations are a strong testimony to the District’s colleges and their efforts in this regard.
• Los Rios is guided by a clearly articulated vision and set of values including – empowering our Colleges to provide a student-centered learning experience; fostering an inclusive learning environment; promoting a climate of integrity, trust and accountability; striving for and meeting the highest standards of performance through collaboration and innovation; committing to recruitment and retention of the best employees and promoting responsible stewardship of District resources.
• Los Rios continues to be a fiscally sound district. Our philosophy is to expend only ongoing costs with ongoing resources, and as a result have been able to maintain our healthy reserve level, allowing us to effectively manage economic volatility and fluctuations in enrollment. The district is also dedicated to funding our long-term commitments to enhance employee satisfaction and student success.
• The seven-member Board of Trustees exhibits a high level of professionalism and commitment to student success while respecting the authority granted to the Chancellor through Board Policy.
• The Colleges, with their successful history of serving their diverse communities, have developed robust partnerships with business, governmental entities, and educational institutions across the region and play a significant role in advancing the economic development and vitality of the Sacramento Region, Northern California, and statewide. The District’s location in Sacramento, the State Capitol, gives it a status no other district in the state enjoys.
• The District, including all the colleges and centers, honors diversity, embraces equity, and is committed to identifying barriers and implementing changes to promote student equity and completion.
• The District has experienced steady growth at each of the colleges, which has precipitated tremendous community support.
• In the colleges, the diverse and inclusive Student Senates and Student Government organizations are robust and participatory, and interact regularly with the Administration, students and college constituencies.

The new chancellor will focus on varied opportunities to pursue growth and improvement on behalf of the district over the next five to seven years. Among those are the following:

• As a community college district with a large and diverse geographical footprint, Los Rios CCD will continue to empower its four colleges and the District Office to work as an integrated system that operates cooperatively, efficiently, and effectively in serving a diverse service area and student population with a particular emphasis on increasing services to populations traditionally underserved.
• The district will continue to be a leader among the California community colleges in improving student achievement rates and reducing student equity gaps. This will include leading an ongoing and all-inclusive dialogue on fostering a culture of equity, inclusion, and anti-racism districtwide.
• The district and colleges' educational plans and strategic plans will continue to provide the vision for integrated instruction and student support services to support students with diverse educational goals, including transfer, career technical education, dual enrollment, and general education.
• Los Rios CCD will continue to work to strengthen personnel and institutional effectiveness to achieve and sustain excellence as measured by student outcomes and organizational climate.
• Maintain, sustain, and support mutually beneficial relationships with the communities in the district to improve the social and economic well-being of the region.
• The district will continue to make every effort to maintain safe and healthy learning and work environments for faculty, staff, and students.
• In light of the student-centered funding formula for California Community Colleges, Los Rios CCD will continue to act effectively and creatively with the fiscal constraints and budget uncertainties associated with this evolving funding model.
• The Colleges and district-wide services will continue to focus on advancing and maintaining educational quality, access, and student success in light of the upcoming State Budget uncertainties. This will include continuing to address enrollment challenges by expanding outreach throughout the district service area to ensure the colleges are attracting, retaining, and effectively serving all students within the district.
• Provide support to the district colleges to develop and foster relationships with the region's K-16 partners to advance work around AB 1705, dual enrollment opportunities, and other pathways to improve access, retention, and completion for all students.
• Lead and engage in developing community support for the district through fundraising activities, such as capital/bond campaigns, as well as fostering relationships with corporate and industry partners.
• Prepare and lead the district to pursue a district-wide Bond election to provide new facilities to meet the district's current and future needs, and for upgrading and repairing existing facilities at the colleges and district operations. This includes assessing the most appropriate and optimal use of existing facilities in light of technology-driven changes in the teaching and learning environment.