Napa Valley College announced Thursday the appointment of Terry Giugni, who has a Ph.D in physiology and biophysics, as the colleges next vice president of instruction. <\/p>\n
Giugni will begin his appointment in early January as the head of the Office of Instruction and will oversee the colleges instructional program. He will provide leadership support to the colleges 342 full- and part-time faculty members serving a student enrollment of more than 18,000. <\/p>\n
A Napa Valley native who grew up in Oakville and was schooled in public institutions throughout California, Giugni received a B.S. in biological sciences from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and completed his Ph.D. in physiology and biophysics at the University of California, Irvine. <\/p>\n
A name familiar to many in the Napa Valley, the Giugni family came to the area from Switzerland in the 1860s. Giugnis grandparents were owners of the Oakville Grocery for nearly 50 years starting in 1940 and Giugnis great-grandfather was the stonemason who built the Pope Street Bridge in St. Helena, just a stones throw from NVCs Upper Valley Campus. <\/p>\n
He was selected from a competitive process that began in September. <\/p>\n
Giugni comes to NVC from Fullerton College in Southern California where has served as its vice president of instruction since 2011. He has extensive prior experience as an instructor, administrator and research scientist, NVC said in a news release. <\/p>\n
Terrys long history of a commitment to student success through the development and support of high quality instructional programs at the administrative level demonstrates a true understanding of the importance of faculty within a community college and a deep appreciation of excellence in classroom teaching, said Dr. Ron Kraft, superintendent\/president of NVC. We are excited to have him join our team at NVC. <\/p>\n
Giugni is an accomplished research scientist who spent two years at Vanderbilt University Medical School in Tennessee working under Nobel Laureate Dr. Stanley Cohen studying the role of growth factors in the development of cancer. <\/p>\n
He returned to California to conduct additional research at the City of Hope National Medical Center in the late 1980s and began teaching biology part-time at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga. During what became a 22-year association with Chaffey College, Giugni became a full-time instructor in the Department of Biology, was later appointed dean of Physical, Life, and Health Sciences, and then appointed as Chaffeys dean of Mathematics and Science. In 2010, Dr. Giugni became the dean of the Chaffey Colleges Chino Campus. <\/p>\n
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