【時報訊】聖路易社區學院董事會6月21日宣佈，任命教育博士白璞(Paul
Pai)擔任社區學院Meramec校區校長，將於八月一日正式上任。白璞博士現為加州皇谷學院(Imperial Valley
College)校長，畢業於台灣台中東海大學，獲有南卡羅來那大學碩士和Nova
Southeastern大學博士學位。
今年58歲的白璞校長將負責Meramec校區社區學院長期發展之研究、應用和評估，並推動教學研究、師生學習等多項工作及財政管理、教職員任用等，他同時要將學校與社區結合，提供社區各項教育學習所需，讓社區能充份使用學校之各項資源。
受到Meramec校區師生及社區學院董監事會熱烈歡迎的白璞校長表示，Meramec面對一些全國其他社區學院相同的挑戰，例如資深教師退休，學生註冊管理，經費縮減等問題，「我將奉獻全部時間予提升社區學院教學管理和研究發展，和社區學院師生一起向達成社區學院使命而努力。」
在加州皇谷學院，白璞校長有著管理教職員超過500人、每年預算四千五百萬之經驗，皇谷學院在主校區和三個分區有近一萬名學生，在白校長領導下，成功的通過一項五千八百六十萬元之債券預算而興建一棟最新科技大樓及添置理工設備，皇谷學院的遠距教學中心開拓技術職業教育課程，並與其他地區大學展開合作，發展出以社區為主之教學綱要計劃。
白璞博士擔任皇谷學院校長四年，之前他是喬治亞州Georgia
Perimeter學院教務主任五年半，曾任聖地牙哥Mesa學院、休斯頓社區學院、路易斯安那州立大學工學院、肯他基Johnson
County社區學院等多所學院校務行政工作，並曾任教於路易斯安那州立大學工學院和南卡羅來那大學。
SLCC
Board of Trustees Appoints Paul Pai as Meramec Campus President
The
St. Louis Community College Board of Trustees June 21 approved the appointment of Paul P. Pai, Ed.D., superintendent/president
of Imperial Valley (Calif.) College, to the position of president at the Meramec campus. He begins work
Aug. 1.
Pai, 58, will serve as the chief executive officer and
educational leader at the campus. He will be responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating long-range strategic and
operational plans for campus-based instruction and student support programs; managing fiscal matters and recommending
employment of faculty and staff; interpreting the mission of the college to external audiences; collaborating with local
community representatives to identify educational needs of the community; and collaborating with government officials and the
community at large to apprise them of the college's resource
needs.
"Meramec faces some challenges not uncommon to many other community colleges in the country - losing senior staff to retirement, enrollment management, increased accountability measures with decreasing public funding," he said. "I have devoted my entire adult life in advancing community college education. The staff and student representatives of the college and district leadership offered me a very enthusiastic welcome. I look forward to working with them to advance the college's mission."
At Imperial Valley College (IVC), Pai oversaw a budget of $45 million and more than 500 full- and part-time staff. IVC serves approximately 10,000 credit and non-credit students at its main campus and three extension facilities. Among his accomplishments as president, Pai led the college's successful effort to pass a $58.6 million bond issue that will result in construction of a state-of-the-art science building and new facilities for applied sciences and technology. Under his leadership IVC instituted a distance learning center, expanded career/technical education programs, enhanced 2+2 partnerships with other area universities, and developed a community-based college master plan.
Prior to his four-year period at IVC, Pai served as provost at Georgia Perimeter College (Decatur, Ga.) for 5 and a half years. He has held administrative posts at San Diego Mesa College, in the Houston Community College System, at Louisiana State University-Eunice, Denmark (S.C.) Technical College, and at Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, Kan.). He also has taught at LSU-Eunice, Denmark Technical College, and the University of South Carolina.
Pai's doctorate in community college administration is from Nova Southeastern University. He holds a master's degree in solid state physics from the University of South Carolina, and a bachelor's degree in physics from Tunghai University (Taichung, Taiwan).
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