Department Chairs

Department Chairs are the heart of instructional leadership, supervising, leading, and supporting ACC’s instructional programs in career and technical fields and in transfer disciplines.  Department Chairs put students at the center of their leadership and support faculty and staff in focusing on student success. 

The Vice Chancellor of Instruction periodically brings together all the Department Chairs, deans, and associate vice chancellors to learn, listen, plan, and connect.  Information from recent collegewide department chair meetings can be accessed on this page, where you can find a link to each meeting’s slide deck.

Department Chair Roles & Responsibilities

Task Force Composition

Co-Chairs:

  • Jeanie McGough, DC Education Instruction and Child Care & Development
  • Curtis Eckerman, DC Biology

Members:

  • Alberto Quinonez, DC Engineering Technology
  • Sandra McCrary-Marshall, DC Vocational Nursing
  • Stephanie Herrington, DC Culinary (pending acceptance)
  • Wendy Elle, DC Composition & Literary Studies
  • Risé Lara, DC Communication Studies
  • Shane Anderson, DC Music
  • Linnea Fletcher, DC Biotechnology
  • Kathleen Nakasone, DC ESOL
  • David Fonken, Dean SEM

Resource Personnel/Liaisons

  • Kelly Torrico, Vice Chancellor, Human Resources
  • Susan Burkhauser, Office of Institutional Research & Analytics
  • Gaye Lynn Scott, Vice Chancellor, Instruction
  • Instructional Deans
  • Fellow Department Chairs

Department Chair contacts

Past Department Chair meetings

  • January 26, 2024 pdf
  • October 20, 2023 pdf
  • February 10, 2023 pdf

Upcoming Department Chair meetings

  • September 27, 2024

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