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August 16, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Marilyn Martinez-Flores Named Dean, Library, Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences Division at Santiago Canyon College
(Santa Ana)—Rancho Santiago Community College District announces the appointment of Marilyn Martinez-Flores, Ph.D., as
the dean of the Division of Library, Arts Humanities and Social Sciences at Santiago Canyon College.
Martinez-Flores will have responsibility for the leadership, as well as the administration, of all aspects of this farranging division, ensuring that it is in compliance with applicable regulations. She will provide direction to faculty, approve
curriculum and program changes, review special event proposals, foster collaboration, and ensure that the division’s program is
responsive to the surrounding culturally diverse community. In addition, she will represent the college in community institutions
and on state boards and committees.
With 14 years of experience in higher education as a dean, an associate dean, a program director, a consultant, and a
researcher, she brings a wide range of expertise to the role. Previously, she was dean of arts, letters, and social sciences at Las
Positas College. Before that, she served as dean of instruction, language arts and academic support at Riverside City College
where she also served as dean of academic support, associate dean of college program support, and director of the GEAR UP
program. Additionally, she also served as an external evaluator for underperforming schools for Riverside and San Bernardino
County Schools.
Martinez-Flores has also taught for seven years in the K-12 sector to the graduate level. At the University of California,
Riverside, she was a lecturer providing a graduate-level education course and a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses. At
the Jurupa Unified School District, she provided adult English as a Second Language (ESL) and citizenship classes, served as a
resource teacher, and was a bilingual teacher.
Martinez-Flores is the author of The Intersection of Policy and Practice: Linking Teacher’s Meaning to Actions and
contributed to The Substantive and Symbolic Consequences of a District’s Standards-Based Curriculum published by the
American Education Research Journal. She is a regular presenter at academic conferences. Martinez-Flores has been honored as
Educator of the Year at the Inland Empire Hispanic Image Awards and received an Hispanic Border Leadership Institute
Doctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Riverside.
Martinez-Flores received her Ph.D. in institutional leadership and policy studies from University of California,
Riverside. She earned an M.A. in education with a Bilingual Crosscultural Language in Academic Development (BCLAD)
teaching credential at University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in liberal studies with a concentration in education and
Spanish at the University of California, Riverside.
About Rancho Santiago Community College District
Santa Ana College and Santiago Canyon College are public community colleges of the Rancho Santiago Community
College District, which serves the residents of Anaheim Hills, Garden Grove, Irvine, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin and Villa
Park. Both colleges provide education for academic transfer and careers, courses for personal and professional
development, and customized training for business and industry.
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