Deputy Chancellor & Provost Finalists
Dr. Marilyn Flores
Dr. Marilyn Flores is a distinguished educational leader, administrator, and advocate whose career spans more than 25 years in California’s Community College system. Dr. Flores leads with transparency and accountability, encouraging open communication and shared ownership of outcomes and values that include access, equity, student success, and community engagement. She emphasizes bridging institutional and community gaps, particularly for historically underserved populations. Read more...
Dr. Star Rivera-Lacey
Dr. Star Rivera-Lacey brings more than 25 years of distinguished service and leadership within the California community college system. She currently serves as the Superintendent/President of the Palomar Community College District – one of the largest single-college districts in the state – covering over 2,500 square miles across northern San Diego County. Under he leadership, the institution has achieved significant milestones in fiscal stability, instructional innovation, and infrastructure modernization. Read more...
Dr. Wei Zhou
A proud University of California, Davis Wheelhouse Fellow with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin’s top-ranked doctoral program, Dr. Wei Zhou has extensive administrative experience in multi-campus districts and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) serving large geographic areas and rural, suburban and urban communities as dean, vice president and president at California community colleges in the Bay Area, Central Valley, Inland Empire, Los Angeles and San Diego. Through these experiences, he has developed in-depth knowledge and broad competencies in instructional and student services, institutional research, planning and assessment, as well as human, technology, facilities and fiscal resources. Within multi-campus districts, he has committed to supporting districtwide coordination and alignment in programming and processes while recognizing the unique culture of and communities served by each college so that the district operates as an integrated system that runs cooperatively, efficiently, and effectively in serving the diverse service area and student population. Read more...