College of the Month:
March, 2009
Rio Hondo Community College
CCA Local: Rio Hondo College
Faculty Association
3600 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA 90601
Website: www.rhcfa.org/
President: Jennifer Fernandez
Phone: (562) 908-4082, ext 28
Email:
jfernandez@riohondo.edu
CCA District Representative: District H
Gil Puga, Jr.
Campus Phone: (562) 692-0921, ext. 3255
Email:
gilpuga@hotmail.com or
gpuga@riohondo.edu
About the RHCFA President
Jennifer Fernandez started her tenure at Rio Hondo as Director of Student Development in 1986. In 1994, she became a member of the counseling faculty, where she provides guidance and academic counseling to students pursuing careers in law enforcement and firefighting. Over the past 20 years, Jennifer has served on various college committees and leadership roles including curriculum, accreditation, and Academic Senate. She has a varied educational background, earning a B.A. from Whittier College in Biological Sciences and Kinesiology (double major), an M.S. from University of La Verne in Psychology with an emphasis in Counseling, and a DPA (Doctor of Public Administration) from the University of La Verne.
RHCFA Collective Bargaining Agreement
Click here to read the Rio Hondo College Faculty Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Rio Hondo Community
College
3600 Workman Mill Road
Whittier, CA 90601
Phone: (562) 692-0921
Website: www.riohondo.edu
Rio Hondo College is located in Southeast Los Angeles County in the city of Whittier, near the intersection of the 60 and 605 freeways. The college serves more than 24,000 students from the cities of Whittier, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, El Monte, and South El Monte, as well as portions of Downey, La Mirada, La Puente, Industry, and some unincorporated portions of Los Angeles County.
The college is slated to open a new Library Learning Resource Center in the summer of 2009; at the same time, its new South Whittier Education Center is under construction, with an anticipated completion in Spring, 2010. Construction of a new $25 million Student Services complex will begin this summer, and should be completed by the fall of 2011.
Vision Statement
Rio Hondo College strives to be an exemplary California community college, meeting the learning needs of its changing and growing population and developing a state of the art campus to serve future generations. Values Statement
Mission Statement
Rio Hondo College is a collaborative center of lifelong learning which provides innovative, challenging, and quality educational offerings for its diverse students and community.
Values Statement
As a teaching/learning community, we come together and strive to meet the needs, aspirations, and goals of our changing student population and communities. Since what we value forms the core of who and what we are, the college community--trustees, faculty and staff--recognizes the importance of openly and candidly expressing the college's values. Rio Hondo College values the following:
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Quality teaching and learning
The college is dedicated to excellence in instruction and student services to develop the intellectual and personal competence of each student. Rio Hondo College is committed to preparing students to adapt to the demands of a multicultural society. -
Student access and success
Rio Hondo College recognizes the individual worth and potential of every human being. Accordingly, the college offers an open access, comprehensive educational program to its students including basic skills, vocational education certificates and degrees, general education and transfer courses, and, for its community, economic development opportunities. At Rio Hondo College, students will have an opportunity to develop ethical values, learn the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, develop career skills, and understand the scientific, artistic and social achievements of various cultures including their own. -
Diversity & Equity
Rio Hondo College remains committed to the diversity of students, faculty, staff, and management. Diversity can be defined in many ways including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, learning styles, political beliefs, or other ideologies. Appreciation of diversity means the following:-
Recognizing that each individual is unique and understanding individual differences.
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Recognizing the things that people have in common despite being members of diverse groups
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Creating a safe, positive, and nurturing environment that cultivates respect for what these differences are
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Moving beyond simple tolerance to embracing and celebrating the rich dimensions of diversity as a way of coming together as a community with a common purpose. The concepts of educational equity and student learning outcomes are central to the values of the College. Access to education and the opportunity for educational success for all students shall be provided, with particular efforts in regard to those who have been historically and currently underrepresented. Education should prepare students to adapt to the demands of a multicultural society.
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Fiscal Responsibility
Rio Hondo College recognizes the importance of maintaining a fiscally sound, efficient, and effective college operation. It uses its resources—human, facilities, and financial—to the optimum benefit of its students, community, and staff.