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Joseph L. Subbiondo, President
 Joseph
L. Subbiondo, president of CIIS since June
1999, has an accomplished background in
both administration and academics. He brings
a distinguished thirty-year history of achievement
in higher education, including appointments
on several international academic committees,
and he has been active on numerous accreditation
teams for the Western Association of Schools
and Colleges, the Institute’s accrediting
body. Mr. Subbiondo has published extensively
on the history of linguistics, among his
specialties the study of the relation between
English words and the evolution of consciousness.
Prior to coming to CIIS, he served as dean
of the School of Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s
College of California; vice president for
academic affairs at the University of the
Pacific; dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at Santa Clara University; and
as tenured faculty at several universities.
See a bibliography
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Judie Wexler, Academic Vice President
 Dr.
Judie Wexler comes to CIIS with an illustrious
background in higher education. A professor
of sociology, Dr. Wexler has been teaching
for more than 25 years and served as Chair
for both the Department of Sociology and
the Division of Business Administration
and Social Sciences at Holy Names College.
Between 1992 and 1997, Dr. Wexler held the
positions of Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Holy Names
College in Oakland, California, where she
focused her energies on creating a faculty
development program to incorporate multicultural
materials into the curriculum, among other
projects. Before coming to CIIS, she was
Associate Executive Director at the Western
Association of Schools and Colleges. |
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Chip B. Goldstein, Associate Dean, Academic Administration
 Dr. Goldstein joined CIIS in Fall 2006 from Stanford University where he was the chief finance and administrative officer for Undergraduate Advising Programs and the Freshman Dean's Office. Chip also served for ten years as registrar at Notre Dame de Namur University and as a senior project manager in the higher education division at Oracle Corporation. He has held academic administration posts at The University of Michigan and University of Detroit Mercy. A native of Philadelphia, he completed his undergraduate work at West Chester University, a master’s at Michigan State University and a doctorate in Higher Education Administration and Policy at Nova Southeastern University. |
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Shirley Strong, Dean of Students, Institute Disability Officer
Shirley Strong has been engaged in education, philanthropy, community building, and social action for nearly 30 years. Her academic experience includes service as faculty member, academic counselor, and administrator at a variety of colleges and universities including the University of New Mexico, San Francisco State University, California State University – Hayward, and Mills College. Shirley has spent the past 13 years as the Executive Director of Project Change, a Tide Center organization founded by the Levi Strauss Foundation, that develops and supports multi-racial community coalitions, partnerships, and alliances in local community building programs. In 1993, she was appointed director of the Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative which is now a partner in the national joint anti-racism venture with Claremont Graduate University’s Institute for Democratic Renewal, where she is a senior fellow. Shirley holds a master’s degree in educational psychology/counseling from the University of Illinois, and she has studied in the doctoral program in organization and leadership at the University of San Francisco.
Visit the Dean
of Students Office web page. |
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Richard Buggs, Dean of Alumni
 Richard
Buggs has been CIIS Dean of Students since
1998, and was appointed Director of Alumni
Services, as well, in 2001. He has worked
in Student Services since 1991 and was formerly
Director of Career and Field Placement and
served on the Board of the California Psychology
Internship Council. He is a member of the
CIIS Academic Affairs Administrators Group,
Advancement Group, Diversity Action Team. He earned his Ph.D. in clinical
psychology from CIIS in 1996 and has a B.A.
from San Diego State University. He is a
licensed psychologist and maintains a private
practice in psychotherapy. Richard also
serves on the Board of Directors for Haight-Ashbury
Psychological Services. |
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Pamela Sparkman, Director of Admissions
Pamela Sparkman received her Ed.M. in Arts Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and her BA, in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. She has taught visual arts for more than five years at the secondary level. In 2003 she was a Funds For Teachers grant recipient and started an elementary arts education program in Raratonga, Cook Islands, which is now managed by Global Volunteers. She was selected to be a speaker and her arts education research was published by the International Conference on Education in 2004. Before coming to CIIS, she worked in student services at the San Francisco Art Institute and most recently served as the Director of Admissions for the Oxbow School in Napa, California. Currently, Pamela has been elected to the Sausalito Arts Commission and is in the second year of her four-year term. |
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Bahman Shirazi, Archives Coordinator
 Bahman
A.K. Shirazi, Ph.D., has taught for over
a decade in the areas of integral psychology,
research methodology, psychology of Sufism
and cross-cultural psychology. He has published
book chapters and articles in the areas
of integral psychology and Sufi psychology,
including a book chapter titled: Integral
Psychology: The Metaphors and Processes
of Personal Integration, and two other
publications with the Cultural Integration
Fellowship and IONS on integral psychology,
currently in publication. Bahman has presented
at a number of conferences internationally,
including the 2004 Parliament of World
Religions in Barcelona, Spain. |
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Michelle Eng, Director of Undergraduate
Studies
 Michelle
Eng holds bachelor's and master's degrees
in English Literature from the University
of Hawaii, Manoa. Prior to joining CIIS,
she was Assistant Dean of Students at Chaminade
University of Honolulu, and has served as
an adjunct faculty member teaching writing,
ESL, and literature at TransPacific Hawaii
College, Chaminade University, and the University
of Hawaii for the past eight years.
Visit the Bachelor's
Completion Program web page. |
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Dorotea Reyna, Director of Development
 Since
March 2004, Dorotea Reyna has served as
Director of Development. Prior to
coming to the Institute, she was a fundraiser
for Dominican University of California,
the University of California at San Francisco,
and the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
Dorotea received a Bachelor's Degree in
English from Stanford University (1980),
and a Master's Degree in English from the
University of Texas at Austin (1984).
In 2001 Dorotea's play "Goddesses"
was performed at Dominican University of
California, the Live Oak Theater, Mills
College, and live on KPFA. Her daughter
Miranda is a full-time flamenco student
in Seville, Spain.
Read more information
about CIIS's Development Office. |
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Scott Ciliberti, Director of Information
Technology Services
 Scott
Ciliberti came to CIIS as a systems analyst
in May of 1999 and became Director of IT
Services in April of 2001. Hailing
from Philadelphia, he moved to San Francisco
after completing his B.S. in Business Administration
at New York Institute of Technology just
outside of Manhattan. Previous to college,
he held various management positions in
the restaurant industry.
Learn about computing
and technology resources at CIIS. |
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Marisol Mendoza, Director of Financial Aid
Marisol Mendoza began her academic career at the University of California, San Francisco, in 2003. In late 2004, she moved to Golden Gate University where she advanced her career from Records and Registration to Financial Aid. Prior to joining academia, Marisol was an advocate of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library for six years where she actively promoted the San Francisco Public Library Annual Book sales and solicited donors to assist Project Read, the library's adult literacy program.
A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, she completed her undergraduate and graduate work at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She is completing a degree in Film Production at the Community College of San Francisco.
Visit the Financial
Aid web page. |
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Dan Gurler, Registrar
 Prior to joining CIIS in June of 2007, Dan Gurler held several administrative positions at Golden Gate University, ultimately as the Associate Registrar. He also earned his MBA from Golden Gate University. A Midwest native, Dan received his bachelor’s degree in theatre and English from the University of Iowa.
Visit the Registrar's
Office web page. |
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Lise Dyckman, Library Director
 Lise
M. Dyckman joined the CIIS Library in the
summer of 2001. Prior to that she worked
in both large university libraries (New
York University and UC Berkeley), smaller
college libraries (Haverford and Bryn Mawr
Colleges), taught at Baruch College/CUNY,
and worked with library services for teaching
hospitals, non-profit organizations, and
experiential education programs. Her pre-librarian
work life included creating social history
programs and exhibits. She holds an MLIS
from Drexel and a BA/MA in American Culture/Museum
Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Visit the Laurance
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Karim Baer, Director
of Public Programs
 Karim
Baer became the Director of Public Programs
in the fall of 2004. He has worked in a
variety of fields including human resources,
social work, and business management. Prior
to coming to CIIS, Karim was the Director
of 7th Heaven Body Awareness, a center in
Berkeley specializing in yoga and other
contemplative arts. Karim is also an alumnus
of Naropa University. He envisions programs
integrating body, heart, and mind in relation
to service in the world.
Visit the Visit the Public Programs website. |
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L'esa Guilian, Director of Diversity and Human Resources
 L'esa
has been in the field of Human Resources
and Organizational Development for more
than 15 years. She has worked in manufacturing,
high tech and academic organizations during
her career. She has also consulted in the
area of Human Resources and OD for more
than 35 organizations nationwide. L'esa
received her B.A. with a major in criminology
from The Ohio State University, a master's
in Human Resources Development from Golden
Gate University, and she completed her Ph.D.
in Transformative Learning and Change at
CIIS in 2001. L'esa rejoined CIIS in 2002
as the Director of Human Resources. |
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Ken Abiko, Controller and Director of
Finance
 Ken
Abiko came to CIIS in September 2002 in
the position of Controller and Director
of Finance. Along with a B.S. degree in
Business Administration from UC Berkeley,
Ken brings to CIIS several years of accounting
operations, general ledger, taxes, budgeting,
financial modeling, data analysis, and project
control. He has worked in diverse industries
such as retail, capital equipment leasing,
high tech systems engineering, and insurance
with short stints with organizations involved
in business consulting, publishing, and
non-profit activism. During his many failed
attempts to escape the world of finance,
Ken learned concepts of computer programming
and database development, both of which
serve him well in managing financial processes
and systems. |
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Jonathan Mills, Director of Facilities
and Operations
 Jonathan
Mills first came to CIIS 1997 to study in
the ACS program and returned to join the
Plant Operations department in July of 2002.
Jonathan's operations background includes
several positions in business departments
of other non-profits, such as University
of California Extension, and a stint in
investor relations for an Oakland-based
software company. Jonathan's interest in
facilities management started when he was
ten while helping his father remodel the
family house and continued through many
construction projects he joined during high
school and college summers. Jonathan earned
a B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College
and has plans to return to graduate school
to become a therapist. |
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CIIS
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CIIS Council
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