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April 20, 2007•9
Four dean
Dean finalist sees student involvement as key to success
finalists visit
By Joyce Flores
By Joyce Flores
he was made President Fellow, and in
English Ph.D. has five-point plan for dean position
Dr. Yoon Sik Kim
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Finalist has grasp on economic, social, political factors
By Julian Aguilar IV
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campus for
interviews
Finalist believes community college
provides a special experience.
Dean applicant wants to challenge
students and encourage greater
student-faculty interaction.
By Regis L. Roberts__________________________________
Dean candidate wants faculty
to have opportunity to speak.
Dr. John De Leon
dean of arts and sciences applicant
Andrew received two doctorates: in social
work from the University of Texas-Austin and in
law from the Lincoln Law School-San Jose, Calif.
She also received a certificate from the Institute
for Management and Leadership in Education
from Harvard University.
Most currently she held the position of dean
and professor at the San Jose State University
College of Social Work in San Jose, Calif.
■ Much of Andrew’s research and outreach work
has been directed to the Hispanic community,
and she is a member of the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration’s Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention National Advisory
Council.
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Dr. Yoon Sik Kim, associate dean of assessment
and accreditation at Philander Smith College in Little
Rock, Ark., is hoping to fill the space Bill Richardsi
will leave when he steps down as interim dearrof4i
and sciences.
Kim said he has a five-point platform for change if
selected dean of arts and sciences.
His first two points call for a i ’ ”
environment for students. This includes a more rigor-
ous curriculum and greater participation by students
in how classes are run to help them learn critical
thinking, he said.
He said he has allowed students to do some teach-
ing, which forces them to do their own research on
the topic they are to instruct.
His third plan for change, faculty-student interac-
tion, will allow students to experience firsthand what
a professor does by providing them teacher’s assistant
jobs on campus, he said.
Kim said he also wants to enrich the education
This college is looking to hire a
new dean of arts and sciences who
would oversee 20 departments.
Four finalists have been select-
ed to interview with deans, the
president and vice president, and
with arts and sciences faculty and
chairs.
The four candidates are Dr. Tom
Billimek, Dr. John De Leon, Dr.
Sylvia Andrew and Dr. Yoon Sik
Kim.
The all-day interviews began
Wednesday with Billimek; De
Leon will be interviewed today,
Andrew on Monday and Sik Kim
on Tuesday.
The schedule for each of the
applicants’ visit to campus is the
same.
The committee will interview
the applicants from 8:30 a.m. to
9:30 a.m. in Room 612-613 of Moody
Learning Center.
The applicants will have a cam-
pus tour from 9:45 a.m. to 10:45
a.m.
Then they will have an inter-
view and lunch with President
Robert Zeigler and Executive Vice
President Kristine Clark from 11:45
a.m. to 1 p.m.
A public forum to meet and
question Billimek, De Leon and
Kim is from 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m
in Room 612-613 of Moody.
They will meet with the arts and
sciences faculty' and chairs from
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Room 612-
613 of Moody.
Andew’s public forum is from
1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m in Room 120
of the visual arts center and she
will meet with the arts and sciences
faculty and chairs from 2:30 p.m. to
3:30 p.m in Room 120 of the visual
arts center.
At the College Council meeting
April 11, Zeigler said he encour-
ages students to participate in the
public forum for each finalist.
Some believe that community college provides
an experience one cannot find anywhere else.
Dr. Sylvia Rodriguez Andrew is one such
individual.
As a candidate to replace Bill Richardson,
interim dean of arts and sciences at this college,
Andrew said she firmly believes education is the
great equalizer.
With 20 years of experience in public, private and
Dr. John De Leon is a Texas native who
is now the department head and professor
of the engineering technology program at
Kansas State University at Salina.
In a phone interview Tuesday, De
Leon said he has always had an inter-
est in being in the education scene.
He received a Ph.D. from Texas A&M
University in industrial education with
an emphasis in community college
leadership.
Growing up in Martindale with 13
brothers and sisters in a low-income
• family made De Leon understand the
importance of education.
“I never forgot where I came from,”
De Leon said. “I have a soft sport the underrepresented classes like first-
for people who face adversity. I’m an
exception, not the norm when it comes
to beating the odds of poverty.”
De Leon was the first member of his nology classes at Texas State University-
San Marcos for 11 years. His philosophy
is that students learn more by doing.
. In January 2001, De Leon was made
assistant dean of University College at
Texas State University. In August 2004,
family to graduate from college with a
master’s and doctorate.
He understands why some people
might not want to pursue higher edu-
cation.
“What does it mean to the students J
to complete two more years of school? June 2005, he was hired as a depart-
Why spend more money? Why two
more years?” De Leon asked. “We must
make those people aware of the finan-
cial and political power that a degree
represents.”
He said he sees a strong potential in
ment head at Kansas State University.
In Kansas, he led the engineering
and technology department to build
articulation agreements with various
community colleges. Articulation agree-
ments are similar to the two-plus-two
plans at this college.
Since he has been at Kansas State
University, he has drafted eight articu-
lation agreements, three more are pend-
ing and two others are in progress.
“I spearheaded that I brought the
idea from Texas,” he said.
The engineering and technology
program at Kansas State now leads in
the state with articulation agreements, are the No. 1 priority.”
De Leon said.
He also secured over $1.2 million
in grants for Texas State University-
San Marcos and half a million dollars
in scholarship money for Kansas State
University students.
In an e-mail Wednesday, De Leon
stated, “I have drafted for submis-
sion a $2 million National Science
Foundation, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics Talent Expansion pro-
posal with four community college
partners for the purpose of convert-
ing existing Engineering Technology
courses for online delivery.”
De Leon is married and has three
children, Joshua, 20, Elysa, 18, and
Jeremiah, 13.
If he gets the job, De Leon said
Joshua will pursue a degree in industri-
al engineering at Texas State and Elysa
will attend classes at this college.
His administration philosophy is
based on giving everyone in his faculty
a voice.
“I’m a team player. I believe in
shared governance, in hearing their
side. We’re all in this together. We’re
not here for me, we’re not here for
them; we are here for students. They
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ing an educational sysytem.
“You have to have input from
everyone. It’s an enterprise,” she said.
Although Andrew knows some per-
ceive her view of students as being
consumers as being wrong, she said stu-
dents, just like any other consumer, are
paying top dollar for the best product
they can receive — their education.
To her, a faculty that is kept current
on topics pertaining to their field will
make them more competent than they
already are, and opening discussions to
the student body can bring the faculty a
perspective which is often overlooked.
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Another part of what Andrew brings Dr. Sylvia
from her social work experience is that Rodriguez Andrew
community college settings, Andrew also believes . everyone’s opinion is important in shap-
experience by encouraging study abroad. If a student
is taking a Spanish course, that student should travel
to Mexico to become exposed to different ways of
thinking and learning.
Finally, Kim wants to create a supportive campus
environment.
This includes an improved remedial program to
better ease students into college life who
are not ready for a full load, he said.
Kim said his administrative philosophy
is based on transparency.
He said he wants transparency in aca-
demic policy making, personnel decision
more challenging making and in budgetary allocations.
Elaborating on his ideas about trans-
parency, Kim said every budget decision
would be open so if faculty members want
a raise, he can show them how the money
is being spent and why they can or cannot
receive it.
He also wants horizontal leadership,
he said.
Teamwork and shared governance is important to
effectively run an organization, he said.
He said students should feel welcome to come to
talk to him if he becomes the new dean.
generation college students and the
economically disadvantaged.
De Leon taught engineering and tech-
community college provides every single citizen
— young and old — a ticket for the train.
“Some people get off, and some just
keep on going,” Andrew said.
“You just get.a richness you don’t see
in a four-year college. ”
Because her background is primarily in
social work, Andrew is confident she has
a grasp on the economic, social and politi-
cal factors involved in keeping students,
faculty and staff content, and stresses the
importance of fairness and equity.
“We’re not here for me, we’re
not here for them; we are here
for students. They are the No. 1
priority. ”
Kim’s resume boasts an academic career from 1984
to the present from such universities as Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater; Langston University in
Langston, Okla.; St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee,
Okla.; and his current position at Philander Smith
College.
Kim started his education as an English language
and literature major who earned a Bachelor
of Arts at the University of Cheongju in
South Korea in 1978.
He continued his education in America
in 1982 with a Master of Arts in human rela-
tions from the University of Oklahoma in
Norman and earning a doctorate in English
in 1991 from Oklahoma State University in
Stillwater. •
Kim’s area of expertise is poetry, he said.
His dissertation, “Gorilla Language:
Pound’s Pictographing Technique in The
Pisan Cantos,” elaborates on the deletion of
verbs from Ezra Pound’s poems to create the
appearance of an arrest of time, he said.
His resume lists 38 poems appearing in publica-
tions such as The New York Quarterly and The Mid-
American Poetry Review. In 1977, he wrote a novel
written in Korean called “A Dialogue of an Idiot.”
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