Don Warkentin, President, Accreditation Team Chair
Don is the President of West Hills College Lemoore located in Lemoore, California near Fresno.  West Hills College Lemoore is one of the state’s newest community college having received their initial accreditation in June 2006.  Don has been with the West Hills Community College District since 1986 and assumed the presidency of the new Lemoore campus in 2004.  Previously Don was the Dean of Student Services for the Lemoore campus. This is Don’s fifth time serving as a visiting accreditation team member and third time as team chair.  Previous accreditation experience includes visits to Orange Coast College, Foothill College, Canada College, and Berkeley City College.

Sylvia Dorsey-Robinson, Assistant to the Team Chair
Sylvia has been an administrator in education for 22 years.  Currently, she serves as Vice President of Student Services at West Hills College Lemoore.  Prior to that, she was an Associate Dean at West Hills College Lemoore for the past three years.  Having served as an Assistant Principal, Principal, Coordinator of Special Education, Director of Special Services, and as an Associate Dean, has afforded her the opportunity to work with and severe many diverse socio-economic, educational, ethnic and language populations.
In her free time, Sylvia enjoys spending it with my husband and daughter, camping, riding their all-terrain vehicles or taking trips.

Dr. Kristeen (Kris) Abrahamson, Dean of Arts and Sciences
Kris is the current Dean of Arts and Sciences at Santa Rosa Junior College. She is a member of the Project Learn Committee providing direction for SLOs and also participated in the 2009 Accreditation Steering Committee.  She holds an Liberal Arts & Sciences A.A. from Santa Rosa Junior College; B.A., Management Studies, Sonoma State University; M.A. Humanities, San Francisco State University; and Ed.D., Educational Leadership, University of California Davis.

Thomas J. Burke, Chief Financial Officer
Tom serves as Chief Financial Officer of the Kern Community College District. Prior to that appointment, he served as the Director, Business Services, at the District’s Bakersfield College beginning in 1997. Prior to joining Bakersfield College Tom worked in regulatory relations for Contel and finance for Texaco and Getty Oil Companies.  Mr. Burke earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Administration-Finance from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from California State University, Bakersfield.  Tom is married and has three children.

Dr. Brenda Davis, President
Dr. Brenda Davis' distinguished career has spanned over 42 years as a professional nurse, educator, and college administrator. Her career path at Riverside Community College District has included being the first administrator of nursing to provide leadership culminating in the Associate Degree Nursing program obtaining accreditation from the National League for Nursing in 1981. Dr. Davis served as Dean of Occupational Education (1984-1990), Dean of Grant and Contract Services (1991-1994), Provost of the Norco College (1993-March 21, 2006) and was appointed as the first President of the Norco College on March 21, 2006.

Dr. Brenda Davis holds a Doctor of Education degree in Curriculum and Teaching, a Master of Education degree in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing all from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.

She was presented with the Champion of Technology in Education Award by the Community College Foundation at its 2005 International Conference and Exposition, Pasadena, California. Dr. Davis is a recipient of the Riverside County YWCA 2006 Woman of Achievement Award.

Thomas G. Greene, Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Student Services
In August, 2010, Thomas Greene returned to Lake Tahoe Community College where he currently serves as the Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Student Services.  Between 2000 and 2003, he served on the counseling faculty, and was the program coordinator of the EOP&S and CARE Program at the college.

Prior to his return to Lake Tahoe, Thomas was the Associate Vice-President of Enrollment and Student Services at Sacramento City College (2008-2010).  He also served as the Special Assistant to the President at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida (2005-2008).  Prior to his work at Valencia, Thomas was involved with the Community College Survey of Student Engagement and the Achieving the Dream Initiative—a national effort focused on closing the participation and achievement gaps for minority and low-income community college students (2003-2005).  

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in educational administration and community college leadership from the University of Texas, Austin. He also holds a masters and bachelor’s degree in counseling and finance, respectively, from Northern Illinois University.

James Matthews, Library Coordinator and Collections Development
Since 1988, James Matthews has worked at Chabot College. He is currently the Library Coordinator and Collections Developer. He holds a B.A. from California State University, Sacramento; and M.L.S. from San Jose State University.

William G. (Bill) McGinnis, Trustee
Bill currently serves as a Trustee Butte-Glenn Community College District since December, 1992, and also as an Outside consultant for CCLC since 2004. His professional experience also includes Local government management (City & County), University administrative operations management, Political Science lecturer (part-time) at CSU, Chico, and Board Member & Past President, California Community College Trustees. 

Bill’s experience with accreditation includes the self-study development committee at CSU, Chico (2001 – 2003), Trustee participation at Butte College accreditation meetings (2009), and on accreditation teams for College of the Canyons (2008), Pierce College (2007) and Mira Mar College (2004).

Bill holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Business Administration from Midwestern College, Denison, Iowa (1969), and a Master's of Arts Degree in Public Administration, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida (1973). He has also attended special training programs in Executive Leadership and Mgt. Institute in 1998 at Stanford University and an Executive Development Institute in 1990 at the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Stephen M. Payne, Command Historian
Dr. Stephen M. Payne is a graduate of Cabrillo College, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, and UC Santa Barbara.  He has taught at San Jose State University, the California History Center at De Anza College, and Cabrillo College.   Payne’s publications include books and articles on the history of Santa Clara County, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey’s sardine industry, as well as on imperialism and military history.

Payne has held a number of positions at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC). Between 1994 and 1999 and again from 2006 to the present, he has been the Command Historian conducting institutional research.  He has served on four accreditation evaluation teams and directed two accreditation self-studies for DLIFLC, as well as leading the successful degree granting effort for DLIFLC and writing the academic freedom statement for the institute.  Between 2001 and 2005 Payne served as Assistant Provost, Senior Vice Provost, and Interim Provost for a student outcomes focused institution of 1,373 full-time foreign language and area studies faculty teaching 22 languages to over 3,500 full-time students. 

Robert Renteria, Professor of Reading
Bob Renteria is a Professor of Reading at Cerritos College. He served as the academic senate secretary at Cerritos during 2004, 2006-2008. He has a BA in History from CSU Los Angeles, and Masters from CSU Fullerton in Reading and Curriculum and Instruction. Presently a member of Cerritos self-study SLO committee.  He has served on 11 previous site visitations.

Dr. Kathleen Rose, Vice President of Instruction
Kathleen is currently the Vice President of Instruction of Gavilan College in Gilroy, California. She has thirty years of administrative and teaching experience in higher education and began her career as a literacy tutor in migrant education in upstate New York. Her educational background includes a BA in English and Education from SUNY Geneseo, a M.ED in Education and Counseling from the University of Arizona, and a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Higher Education from the University of Arizona. In additional she is a Nationally Certified Counselor and adjunct faculty member at a number of colleges and universities, where she teaches Psychology and Organizational Leadership.

Glenn Yoshida, Department Chair, Natural Sciences
Born and raised in Monterey, CA , Glenn went to high school and college in Los Angeles.  After completing a B.S. (Zoology) and M.S. (Biology) at CSULA, he began teaching Anatomy & Physiology at Los Angeles Southwest College in 1976 and continues to teach there to this day.  During his tenure, Glenn has been Department Chair for the last 28 years and Curriculum Committee Chair for 12 years.  Besides his current Department Chair position, he also serves as SLO Coordinator.  Previous accreditation activities include involvement in the formation of LASC’s last 4 Self-Studies and participation as an accreditation team member on at least 6 visits.