Neil Bryant
Position: Commission Chair, Voting Member, also Chair of Funding and Achievement Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2019
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 Retired lawyer and shareholder in the firm of Bryant, Lovlien & Jarvis in Bend, Oregon, in 2017 after 44-1/2 years. Bryant served as Oregon State Senator from 1993-2001, including service as chair the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001. He served as director of Government Affairs for the former Oregon University System from 2004-2009. In addition to his service on the HECC, Bryant is past chair of the Cultural Advocacy Coalition, member and past president of the Rotary and the Bend Chamber of Commerce, and has served on other boards for educational nonprofits.
David Rives
Position: Commission Vice Chair, voting member, also member of Funding and Achievement Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2020
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 President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-Oregon. Rives has served as Instructor of English for Speakers of Other Languages, advisor to the State Board of Education, officer on the former Oregon Education Investment Board, and on the AFT Higher Education Program Policy Council.
Lee Ayers-Preboski
Position: Commissioner, university faculty non-voting member, also member of Student Success and Institutional Collaboration Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2019
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 Division Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Southern Oregon University. In addition to her service for the HECC, Dr. Ayers-Preboski served eight years on the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, and serves on the Board of Directors for both Jackson County Community Works and the Public Safety Coordinating Council. She is also a Texas certified teacher.
Vanessa Becker
Position: Commissioner, voting member
Term Expires: June 20, 2019
Commissioner Vanessa Becker
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 Principal and Founder of V Consulting & Associates Inc. in Roseburg, Oregon, focusing much of her consulting practice on leadership and organization development in rural areas. Vanessa Becker recently served two terms as a trustee for Umpqua Community College, five of the eight years as chair of the board, and her service to the community college system was recognized with the Howard Cherry Award in 2016. Ms. Becker is an American Leadership Forum fellow, and was also recognized by Harvard in 2017 as a co-presenter and alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School Crisis Leadership in Higher Education program. She has been appointed and served on several nonprofit and government based advisory boards, largely focused on health and human services.
Terry Cross
Position: Commissioner, voting member, also member of Student Success and Institutional Collaboration Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2019
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 Executive director--now serving as senior advisor--of the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), a policy and advocacy organization for Indian children and their families. Mr. Cross has 40 years of experience in child welfare; he is an author and national expert on child welfare issues, and served on the faculty of Portland State University School of Social Work for fifteen years.
Enrique Farrera
Position: Commissioner, college/university staff non-voting member
Term Expires: June 30, 2017
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Academic Advisor and Career Coach at Clackamas Community College (CCC), where he also serves as Association President of the Classified Association of CCC. Mr. Farrera is a graduate of the Education Leadership & Policy in Postsecondary Adult Continuing Education (PACE) program at Portland State University, and has served in the United States Marine Corps.
Frank Goulard
Position: Commissioner, community college faculty non-voting member, also serves on the Funding and Achievement Subcommittee and the Student Success and Institutional Collaboration Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2019
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 Mathematics
faculty member at Portland Community College. PCC's faculty union president.
Member of the PERS deferred compensation advisory board and the Oregon
community college essential budget level committee.
Ramon Ramirez
Position: Commissioner, voting member, also member of Student Success and Institutional Collaboration Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2020
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 President of Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, PCUN, based in Woodburn, the Oregon farmworkers union and the largest Latino organization in the state. Ramirez is also President and member of the Board of Directors of the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation, President and member of the Board of Directors of CAUSA, and Member of the Board of Directors of the United Farmworkers of America Foundation.
Larry Roper
Position: Commissioner, voting member, also member of Student Success and Institutional Collaboration Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2021
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 Professor in the School of Language, Culture and Society and Coordinator of the College Student Services Administration program and the undergraduate Social Justice Minor at Oregon State University (OSU). Dr. Roper previously served as Vice Provost for Student Affairs at OSU from 1995-2014. He previously served six years as a Commissioner with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
Sandy Rowe
Position: Commissioner, voting member, also member of Funding and Achievement Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2021
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 Editor and civic leader who served as editor of The Oregonian newspaper from 1993-2010. She has served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, chair of the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, chairman of the international Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2010 and 2011, Rowe was the Knight Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Rowe currently is on the board of the Oregon Nature Conservancy and is a trustee of Willamette University. She previously served on the Board of Visitors of James Madison University in Virginia. Carmen Rubio
Position: Commissioner, voting member, also Chair of Student Success and Institutional Collaboration Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2021
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 Executive Director of the Latino Network, Oregon. Board member and Past President of All Hands Raised. Board Member, Social Venture Partners Portland. Board Member, University of Oregon Alumni Asociation. Board Member, ColorPAC. Marshall Memorial Fellow and American Leadership Forum of Oregon Fellow.
Kali Sullivan
Position: Commissioner, university student non-voting member
Term Expires: June 30, 2019
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 Student at Portland State University. Kali Sullivan is a PSU student majoring in Political Science, who recently transferred from Rogue Community College and Southern Oregon University where she was a dual-enrolled student. She describes herself as a human rights advocate on Oregon and international issues, and she serves as a student senator at PSU.
Duncan Wyse
Position: Commissioner, voting member, also member of Funding and Achievement Subcommittee
Term Expires: June 30, 2020
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 President of
the Oregon Business Council. Member of the Oregon Community Foundation Board. Former
Member and Chair of the Oregon Board of Education.
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