Bryan Reece was named the new Dean of Humanities and Social Science Division over the summer.

Although he feels a little bummed because his office will no longer have a window, the former president of faculty senate feels very honored, optimistic and looks forward to taking on this very important role.

“I’m very excited and optimistic about taking on this position,” he said. “I think this is a great division to be working with and I think we could do a lot of great things together.”

He plans on focusing on two main goals while in office:

• first is to provide excellent administrative services to the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty and students and
• second is he hopes on improving student performance and success.

One way he will go about in doing so is by implementing the iFALCON campaign into classrooms.

As one of the founders of the Habits of Mind campaign, a campaign established the Fall 2008 semester that promotes studying and healthy learning habits, he hopes to continue promoting iFALCON by partnering with student services in order to help provide students with support and assistance in reading, writing and tips on study skills.

A new method he will also be using is sending out e-mails to students who are majoring in humanities and social sciences.

“I believe it is importaint to not only establish a form of communication with students, but also maintaining it,” he said.

The e-mails’ purpose will be to keep students updated and informed of announcements, issues, requirements or opportunities that pertain to them.

As far as communication with the faculty is concerned, he will also be sending out memos to staff members and faculty as well.

What is most important to Reece iis primarily student success.

He states that one of the differences between being Faculty Senate president and dean of humanities and social sciences is that in Faculty Senate discusses what you should do to improve student success, and as dean the issue is more of “what are you going to do?”

However, he did state that all the discussions, ideas, suggestions and planning done in Faculty Senate to improve student success, and integrate it into his current role as dean.

Faculty Senate president was a great job, he said, but he looks forward to the challenges of being the new dean.

He said, “I have been a member of the Cerritos College faculty for 18 years now so I know the fauclty pretty well. I look forward to working closely with the division staff because I think that as a team we can make a positive impact on student success.”