Effective February 1, 2012, Dr. Larry Buckley will serve as the Interim President and Dr. Haragewen Kinde will serve as the Interim Vice President of Instruction.

San Bernardino Community College District Chancellor Bruce Baron announced the appointment of Larry Buckley, Ph.D., as the Interim President of San Bernardino Valley College and Haragewen Kinde, Ed.D., as the Interim Vice President for Instruction. The announcement was made at the January meeting of the District’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Buckley currently serves as the college’s Vice President for Instruction and Dr. Kinde as the Dean of Mathematics, Business & Computer Technology. These appointments come in response to the resignation of Debra Daniels, Ed.D., who has accepted a position as President of Joliet Junior College in Illinois.

“On behalf of the entire San Bernardino Community College District, I’d like to thank Dr. Daniels for her 4+ years of leadership at San Bernardino Valley College and wish her the best in her next position,” said Chancellor Bruce Baron. “During this time of transition, I believe that both Dr. Larry Buckley and Dr. Haragewen Kinde will provide the strength, dedication, and character needed to allow SBVC to move forward and continue its important work for our community.”

New Interim President Dr. Larry Buckley has held the position of Vice President of Instruction at San Bernardino Valley College since January of 2010. He has previously served as a professor and administrator in higher education for some 27 years in both California and his native Hawaii. He earned his doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees in history from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

“I am looking forward to this exciting opportunity to serve this excellent college and the San Bernardino community in a new capacity,” said Dr. Buckley.

New Interim Vice President of Instruction Dr. Haragewen Kinde started teaching as a part-time instructor in the San Bernardino Community College District in 1989. She became a full-time math faculty member at SBVC in 1997 and assumed the position of Dean of the Mathematics and Science Division in 2005. Before being named Interim Vice President of Instruction, Kinde served as the Dean of Mathematics, Business and Computer Technology at SBVC since 2009. Kinde earned her doctorate degree in educational leadership from the University of La Verne, and her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mathematics from the California State University at San Bernardino.

“I’m honored to serve in this role and I will do my best to support the excellent instruction that happens every day at San Bernardino Valley College,” said Dr. Kinde.

Both appointments will become effective on February 1, 2012, and will remain in place as a national search will be conducted to recruit a permanent president. A screening committee guided by the collegial consultation process will be announced in February with the goal of filling the permanent presidential position with the approval of the SBCCD Board of Trustees prior to the fall 2012 semester.