Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City

Officers

Jacqueline I. Snyder, Chancellor

Jackie Snyder has been involved in education in the Greater Kansas City area since high school. She attended Kansas City Kansas Community College and taught in the Shawnee Mission School District before teaching and going into administration at Johnson County Community College.

At JCCC her positions included Director of Staff Development, Associate Dean of Community Services, and Executive Director of College and Community Relations.

In 1995, Jackie came to the Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, Missouri, as Vice Chancellor of Economic and Resource Development. She was responsible for opening MCC-Business & Technology to provide customized and contract training for area businesses.

As an officer of the District, she has managed marketing and fundraising efforts while working to position MCC as the major provider of workforce training and an important key to the economic development of the metropolitan area.

She was named president of MCC-Penn Valley, which is part of the Metropolitan Community College district, in 1998, where she has focused on improving the connection of the college with the community. With her support, MCC-Penn Valley has been a host of three Coalition of Hispanic Organization Latino Civil Rights Summits, an education summit, several health career fairs and, in partnership with the Kansas City Star, many Entry-Level Job Fairs. Through fund raising efforts the new Carter Art Center and the Turner Courtyard projects have been added to the campus. MCC-Penn Valley's enrollment has grown by 20 percent, to more than to 6,000 students each semester.

Jackie was appointed to the position of executive vice chancellor/ chancellor designee in November 2004, and on July 1, 2005 became the fifth chancellor of the Metropolitan Community College.

Leadership is Snyder's forte. In 2002 she was elected President of the Presidents and Chancellors Association of the Missouri Community College Association. In 2000 she was asked by the Commissioner of Higher Education to join a Commission on the study of the Affordability of Higher Education in the state of Missouri. She was also selected to participate in Leadership Overland Park and Leadership Kansas.

Jackie has received two national awards for excellence in staff development from the American Association of Community Colleges and was named a League Fellow by the League for Innovation in the Community College. She created the first Women's Speaker series at JCCC in collaboration with The Central Exchange and the Women's Resource Network of Johnson County. She has produced and directed award winning educational films, and is a lecturer on women in leadership.

Snyder received a B.S. degree in Education from Kansas State University at Emporia, and holds an M.S. in Educational Administration and an Ed. D. in Higher Education from the University of Kansas.

She has served as a board member of Kansas City Consensus, the Women's Employment Network, and Project Refocus, and has been a trustee for Overland Park Regional Medical Center and Pembroke Hill School. She is currently president of the board of YouthNet.

Mark James, vice chancellor of administrative services

James became vice chancellor in 2008.

Education:

• Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Central Missouri
• Master's degree in strategic intelligence, National Defense Intelligence College
• Bachelor's degree in criminal justice and administration, University of Central Missouri
• Pursuing a ph.D. in business administration, Northcentral University

Experience:

• Director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety and state homeland security advisor. He coordinated the department budget, personnel, legislative matters and related financial and administrative activities. (The department includes the Missouri National Guard, Highway Patrol, Water Patrol, Capitol Police, Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, State Emergency Management Agency, Division of Fire Safety, Office of Homeland Security, Gaming Commission and Veteran's Commission.)
• Adjunct instructor at Columbia College
• Retired Special Agent in Charge and Chief of Intelligence, US Bureau of ATF
• Former fitness center owner

Community involvement: Coaches junior high football

Other: Involved in son and daughter?s activities. He?s also a certified strength and conditioning specialist.

Paul Long, vice chancellor of educational services.

Teaching has been Paul Long's passion for more than twenty years. MCC's vice chancellor of educational services began teaching at UMKC in 1986. From there he taught logic and ethics at the University of Kentucky and William Jewell and then philosophy at MCC-Penn Valley and MCC-Maple Woods.

Long received a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Kentucky and a bachelor in philosophy and political science from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is a sought-after consultant and presenter concerning biomedical ethics and ethics in general.

He has been very active in his service to MCC and Maple Woods, as a list of some of the positions he has held reveals:

• Maple Woods social science and business division chair
• Maple Woods faculty association president
• Maple Woods honors program coordinator
• Faculty Senate member
• Senate Curriculum Committee chair
• District Instructional Coordinating Committee member
• Joint Committee of SCC and DICC for Learning Enhancement Options chair
• North Central Accreditation Steering Committee
• Academic Freedom/Tenure Task Force member
• Academic Probation Task Force member
• Distance Education Committee member

He supports Doctors without Borders, Habitat For Humanity, Kemper Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Art Museum and the Lyric Opera. Besides teaching, his passions include traveling, reading, playing the piano and "hanging out" with his wife Lisa. He is also a USA Swimming referee. He has two children, 14 and 18 years old.

Putting teaching aside for a while, he became vice chancellor in 2008. His goals: Continue to advance the quality of MCC's curriculum and instructional services, including distance education and traditional on-site classes, and increase the success rate of MCC students in developmental education. He will also focus on increasing assessment activities within the district. His philosophy: Get it done and have fun doing it.

Tuesday Stanley, vice chancellor of student development and enrollment management.

Tuesday Stanley came to MCC in 2006 from San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas where she had been the associate vice chancellor of marketing and enrollment management for the previous six years. While at San Jacinto, she oversaw a complete reorganization of the student development and enrollment management departments.

She created a one-stop enrollment center of each of the college's three campuses. Under her guidance, the college streamlined processes; created an enrollment services call center; unified technology and developed a system-wide recruitment and retention plan with emphasis on a diverse student population.

Stanley also served at Raritan Valley Community College from 1996-1999 as the executive director of marketing and recruitment.

Stanley has a doctorate of higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in business administration from Lehigh University, and a bachelor's degree in advertising and communications from Purdue. She also earned certification from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and IEM program and the BMA School of Bank Marketing.

Stanley is a faculty member at the Snowmass Institute on Integrating Strategic Enrollment Management. She is a member of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and the National Counsel for Marketing and Public Relations.

Allan H.Tunis, vice chancellor of administrative services.

Al Tunis joined the Metropolitan Community College in July 1999, as vice chancellor of administrative services. Tunis came to MCC from the Park Hill School District where he had served as assistant superintendent for business services since 1982. Prior to that, he taught elementary school and served as the district science coordinator for the Rochester, Mich. school district.

Tunis earned his bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's of education in educational leadership from Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. He earned an educational specialist degree in education administration from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Tunis is an active member of the Kansas City community and has been a champion of economic growth in the Northland. He has served on the Platte County Economic Development Commission as a board member, as a member of the Platte County Board of Equalization, and on several tax increment commissions. He is a member of the Riverside Chamber of Commerce, the KCI Northland Chamber of Commerce, Rotary International, the Association of School Business Officials, the Missouri Association of School Business Officials, the Missouri Association of School Administrators and the Kansas City Association of School Business Officials.

Joe Seabrooks, president, MCC-Blue River

Dr. Joseph Seabrooks, Jr. became MCC-Blue River president in October, 2007. Seabrooks came to MCC from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, where he was assistant vice chancellor for student affairs accountable for numerous departments including:

• Enhanced learning center
• First-year experience programs
• International students and scholars
• Off-campus connections office
• Student support services
• Office for non-traditional and commuter students
• Pre-college programs

Prior to that, Seabrooks served at the University of Missouri-Kansas City for more than a decade exhibiting a passion for student success and development. His positions there included:

• Executive director of diversity in action
• Director of minority student affairs
• Assistant director of alumni and constituent relations
• Instructor

He also led strategic initiatives that led UMKC to restructure the way it manages affirmative action.

Seabrooks completed his higher education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where be began as a student in 1989. During his undergraduate years, he was extremely active with the African American Student Union, sports (four-year basketball letterman) and student government. He earned four degrees: an interdisciplinary doctorate in urban leadership and policy studies and education administration, an education specialist and a master's degree higher education administration, and a bachelor's degree in psychology.

He has earned numerous leadership and achievement awards. He has also researched and lectured on the history and influence of Hip-Hop.

Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Seabrooks is a first-generation college graduate. He is the loving husband of Leslie Seabrooks and the father of a four-year-old son, Joseph Seabrooks, III.

Debbie Goodall, interim-president, MCC-Business & Technology.

When Debbie Goodall became interim BTC president in 2008, it was the latest in a series of rapid advancements at MCC since 1995. Those include:

1995: Marketing coordinator for MCC-Penn Valley, after coming to MCC from Pierce College in Tacoma, Washington.

1997: Marketing coordinator for the Regional Technical Education Council, which fueled a passion for championing technical education.

1998: Director of the Northwest Missouri Tech Prep Consortium, which coordinates the development and promotion of technical preparatory education.

2001: Director of the Career Education Consortium, an alliance of six school districts, MCC and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which is dedicated to improving and expanding career preparatory programming. She continued as director until she became interim BTC president.

2005: BTC dean of student development and community relations.

2006: MCC director of career and technical education. She also oversaw Project Lead the Way.

While interim BTC president, she will continue to serve as director of career and technical education for the district.

Goodall received a master's degree from Central Missouri State University in vocational, industrial and technical education and bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she also studied speech pathology/audiology.

Her extensive resume includes numerous presentations at national conferences, experience as an instructor and advisor, and work with several committees and organizations. She speaks fluent Spanish - her early education was in Mexico City, Mexico - and loves to cook and garden. She and her husband live in Oak Grove.

Fred L. Grogan, president, MCC-Longview.

Dr. Grogan joined MCC in 1985, as the Dean of Instruction at MCC-Penn Valley, a post he held until 1989, when he became Dean of Student Development and Support Services at MCC-Longview. In 1998, Dr. Grogan was named to his current position as MCC-Longview's President.

In addition to his duties as President of MCC-Longview, Dr. Grogan is also Interim Vice Chancellor of Student Development for MCC.

Prior to coming to MCC, Dr. Grogan taught political science and served as Assistant Dean of the college at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Grogan has a Bachelor's Degree in government from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine; a Master's Degree in political science from Arizona State University; and a Doctorate of Philosophy Degree in political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a board member of the Lee's Summit Chamber of Commerce, Vice-Chair of the Lee's Summit Civic Roundtable, and board member of the Lee's Summit Symphony. He previously served 8 years on the Lee's Summit Planning Commission, including a term as Chairperson.

Merna S. Saliman, president, MCC-Maple Woods.

Saliman came to MCC in 1998 from Red Rocks Community College in Denver, Colo., where she served as vice president of instructional services for eight years. She also served as acting president and vice president of administrative services at the school. Prior to that, she held a variety of positions at her alma mater, Arapahoe Community College.

Those positions included director of the Women's Resource Center, coordinator of the Career Resource Center, affirmative action officer and dean of the humanities and social science division.

Saliman earned an associate's degree from Arapahoe Community College, a bachelor's degree in counseling from Loretto Heights College (both in the metro Denver area,) a master's degree in curriculum and instruction, and a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction/ education leadership from the University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley, Colo.

Her community involvement includes: The Northland Chamber of Commerce; Clay County Economic Development Council; Platte County Economic Development Council; North Kansas City School District Community Partners Advisory Board; Northland Downtown Major Investment Study Advisory Committee; the Saint Luke's Northland Community Planning Committee and the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), Chancellor's Advisory Board to the UMKC Women's Center.

She is also active in many higher education organizations including: the American Association of Community Colleges President's Academy; the American Association of Women in Community Colleges; the American Council on Education-The Network (ACE-NET), the Missouri Advisory Council; the American Council on Education-Office of Women in Higher Education; the Missouri Community College Association; and the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Bernard Franklin, president, MCC-Penn Valley.

The Metropolitan Community College (MCC) selected Bernard Franklin, Ph.D. as the final candidate for the Penn Valley president position. Dr. Franklin began his position May 16, 2005.

MCC conducted a lengthy national search to fill the president's position but in the end found the best candidate for the job was right here in Kansas City. For the past three years, Dr. Franklin, 51, has served as the executive director of Kauffman Scholars, Inc., a comprehensive, multi-year initiative funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to help low-income urban students in Kansas City prepare for and complete a college education.

Prior to joining Kauffman Scholars, Dr. Franklin served as the assistant to the president at Donnelly College. He also held several positions at Kansas State University including: adjunct professor of Leadership Studies, director of outreach, assistant dean of student life and director of leadership development programs. He has also had experience in higher education at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Fla., and at the University of Southern Alabama.