Adela de la Torre Appointed President of 色情视频
Adela de la Torre becomes the ninth permanent president of 色情视频 and the first woman to serve in that role.
The California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees has appointed Adela de la Torre to serve as president of 色情视频. De la Torre currently serves as vice chancellor, student affairs and campus diversity at the University of California, Davis.鈥淎dela is a skilled, student-success focused administrator, and most importantly is a visionary leader. She emerged from a deep pool of candidates as the perfect person to lead the university.鈥�
鈥溕槭悠� boasts a robust and dynamic variety of academic offerings taught by world-class faculty as well as a commitment to serve a brilliant and diverse population of students. It is an incredibly prestigious university and a wonderful point of pride for San Diego,鈥� said de la Torre. 鈥淚 am excited to join the vibrant university community that exists both in San Diego and the Imperial Valley, and I look forward to meeting and working with faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters to further the 色情视频 mission.鈥�
De la Torre becomes the ninth permanent president of 色情视频 and the first woman to serve in that role. She will join the campus in late June 2018. Sally Roush is currently serving as university president and was appointed to serve in that role on an interim basis after former president Elliot Hirshman accepted the position of president at Stevenson University in Maryland.
鈥淎dela is a skilled, student-success focused administrator, and most importantly is a visionary leader. She emerged from a deep pool of candidates as the perfect person to lead the university,鈥� said Adam Day, the chair of the 色情视频 search committee and the vice chair of the CSU Board of Trustees.
De la Torre will join 色情视频 from UC Davis where she has served in various leadership roles, culminating in her role as vice chancellor, student affairs and campus diversity. In that capacity, she oversees a division that encompasses 28 departments and units that provide programs, services and facilities to foster academic success, student development and campus community.
Previous positions at UC Davis include interim vice chancellor, student affairs (2012-13), director for the Center for Transnational Health (2004-present), and chair of the Chicana/o Studies department (2009-11). She also served as the director of the Chicana/o Studies program beginning in 2002 and special assistant to the dean, humanities, arts and cultural studies (2003-04).
De la Torre鈥檚 additional experience in higher education includes service as director of the Mexican American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona (1996-2002).
De la Torre is also familiar with the CSU, having served in the management fellows program at the CSU Office of the Chancellor (1995-96), as the chair of the Chicano/Latino studies department at Long Beach State University (LBSU) from 1991-95, and as a professor of health care administration (1988-96) also at LBSU.
De la Torre earned a B.S. in political economy of natural resources and an M.S. and Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics all from the University of California, Berkeley.
