Dean for Student Success Candidates

Georgia Flores
CV/Resume

Open forum time: 11:00 am
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Georgia Flores serves as the Director of Advising at Northeast Lakeview College. She has been a champion for Student Success in Higher Education for over twenty years working with diverse student populations, including Veterans and their family members, First Generation, First Time in College, and Non-Traditional. Georgia leads efforts to ensure students’ success, by guiding the institution’s mission, vison and values of creating a lifelong learning environment for its diverse community. As a member of the National Community College Hispanic Council (NCCHC) Leadership Fellows, she is committed to furthering the evolving mission of access and success in community colleges. Georgia not only has a passion for helping people reach their academic, professional, and personal goals, she is also committed to fostering an environment that supports diversity, equity, inclusion, and a sense of belonging. Georgia serves on numerous committees, including SEM, Graduation, QEP, Employee Experience Team, and Student Parents. She is a 2020 Alumni of ALAS. Georgia was awarded the 2023 NISOD Excellence Award Recipient and was recently accepted into the Alamo Colleges District first Leadership Academy Cohort. She received her Master’s degree in Education from UT Permian Basin and her Bachelor’s degree in Education from Columbia College. Also, she was recently accepted into the Fall 2023 Texas Tech PhD program in Higher Education.

Angela Guadian-Mendez
CV/Resume

Open Forum: 10:00 am
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Angela Guadian-Mendez joined the Alamo Colleges District in 2016 as the Director of Student Completion under the office of the Vice Chancellor of Academic Success. As the Director of Student Completion, she is responsible for coordinating seamless transfer pathways within the South & Central Texas Transfer Compact for 20 public and private universities. She is passionate about working with students and is dedicated to helping underrepresented students to prepare and succeed in postsecondary education. As a first generation, low-income student, she has spent the past 25 years in post-secondary education building and creating road maps while promoting access and opportunities for all students. Angela holds both a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from California State University, Bakersfield.

Dr. John Arthur Turner
CV/Resume

Open Forum time: 9:00 am
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Since February 2018, Dr. John Turner has served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Services and Executive Dean for the Brenham Campus. Dr. Turner has overseen the Blinn College District’s disability services, enrollment services, financial aid and scholarships, housing and residential life, resolution management and Title IX, student leadership and activities, testing, crisis management and behavioral intervention, and Blinn-Brenham Campus operations.

A veteran administrator with nearly 30 years of management experience, including 16 in higher education, Turner came to Blinn from Louisiana Delta Community College (LDCC) in February 2018.

As Provost and Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs at LDCC, he served as a senior administrative officer and as the chief academic and student affairs officer, providing oversight for the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness, the Office of Sponsored Programs, and direct oversight of seven satellite campuses and the Louisiana Small Business Development Center.

While Turner oversaw LDCC’s enrollment management, he eliminated barriers to student entry, managed enrollment communications and utilized targeted recruitment strategies that resulted in a 5 percent increase in student headcount between Fall 2016 and Fall 2017, and increased Fall-to-Spring semester retention.

Turner previously served as LDCC’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, where he oversaw enrollment management, financial aid, admissions, commencement, outreach and recruitment, new student orientation, state reporting and records, student life, student government, disabilities services, career, and placement services, testing and assessment services, dual enrollment programming, and veteran’s affairs.

While in Brenham, Turner has served as the Chairman of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, president of the Rotary Club of Washington County, and on the Board of Directors for the Washington County Healthy Living Association (Margaret E. Blizzard Senior Activities Center). Turner also served as the Blinn College representative for the Washington County Economic Development Foundation.

Turner holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double major in marketing management and organizational communications/public relations. He holds a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from the University of Louisville and a Doctor of Education in Higher Education Administration from Texas Tech University.