[Wsssc] FW: Student Success Center Director Selection

[Jim Crabbe]

FYI

From: Jim Crabbe
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 11:44 AM
To: SBCTC All Staff <SBCTCAllStaff at sbctc.edu<mailto:SBCTCAllStaff at sbctc.edu>>
Subject: Student Success Center Director Selection

All,
  Welcome Kristi Wellington Baker who was just selected to head up the Student Success Center as its new Director.  Kristi comes to us most recently from Walla Walla Community College where she served as a coordinator of Advising & Retention Services and faculty member from 2001 to 2006, and as Dean of Student Success/Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives from 2006 to the present.  Prior to that she worked at St. Mary Medical Center as a social worker and at Educational Service District 123 as an Intervention Specialist.
 Kristi is notably one of our own, starting her academic career at Walla Walla Community college earning her associates degree in 1992.  She holds a Bachelor's Degree in applied psychology from Eastern Washington University, a Masters of Social Work from Walla Walla University, and is currently doing Doctoral work in executive leadership at the University of Washington.  She was also recently selected a Presidential Fellow at the Aspin Institute in Washington, DC.
  Kristi has authored multiple grants while at Walla Walla, including College Access, College Spark, Opportunity Grant, and has generated over a million dollars in revenue resulting in support services for well over 2500 students.  She championed the Latinx Student Success Task Force at the college, a Realizing the American Dream Academy and the first annual Celebraci`on de Graduaci`on.   Under a Gates Foundation Grant Kristi served as an expert mentor to seven of our colleges focused on assessment of practices and policies impacting completions and knows our system well.  She will join us in early January as soon as she ties up loose ends at Walla Walla.
Welcome Kristi!

Jim Crabbe
Deputy Executive Director of Education (Interim)
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Ofc 360-704-4353 Cell 360-918-3204

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