Change at Linfield College School of Nursing. New Director of Multicultural Programs.
I just got an auto-response from Claudia Garcia that her replacement at the Linfield College School of Nursing is Michael Reyes formerly of Washington State University (WSU) Vancouver campus who begins his new post as Director of Multicultural Programs at the end of August. Garcia heads to Seattle University where she will pursue her Master’s degree in Student Development Administration. I wish her all the best in The Emerald City (I hope she gets to make a stop from time to time in Mount Vernon)! Reyes comes to Portland from Vancouver with a wealth of management experience in student services, gifted in counseling, and a natural in Hispanic community outreach. I’ve known Reyes for well over 10-years when he was an undergrad at WSU in Pullman, Washington and I was at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon and we were active in mentoring Chicano/Latino youth. We crossed paths again when BilingualHire was RED Consulting Group and our offices were in Beaverton.
Best wishes to Claudia as she presses forward professionally & academically in Seattle– and please join us in welcoming Michael to Portland who we know will do great things for Linfield nursing & health science students’.
Linfield School of Nursing Honors Gerardo Ochoa for Administrator of the Year.
Associate Director of Financial Aid, Gerardo Ochoa was recently honored by the campus-community as Administrator of the Year. He came in a few years back at a time when the college needed to build momentum and find solutions to put its nursing students through without heavy loan burdens. Ochoa came in as a Financial Aid Counselor–he quickly added Scholarship Outreach–and set on a mission to become an expert in financial aid and scholarships helping to usher in $1mm+ awards and double it from $500k. During that time he also co-authored Path to Scholarships college edition and trained hundreds of students on the fine art of winning scholarships. Last year Ochoa was promoted to Associate Director of Financial Aid. Now Administrator of the Year.
Please join me in congratulating Ochoa!
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