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Mission
The District Office for Student Affairs supports the mission of Maricopa Community Colleges by creating, enhancing, supporting, and coordinating programs and services that foster student learning and student success. It accomplished this by working proactively and collaboratively with other student and academic affairs administrators, faculty, staff, and students along with our education and community partners.  

Vision
District Student Affairs strives to be a model for high impact service by providing and supporting programs and services to internal and external customers demonstrating professionalism, responsiveness, quality, accountability, expertise and excellence.


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Associate Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs

Associate Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs Staff

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Monica Casteneda, M.Ed.
Coordinator, Student Success

Monica Castaneda is a native of Texas, her family relocated to west Phoenix in 1985. Monica graduated from Phoenix College in 1998, she then attended Arizona State University and received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in 2001, she continued on and received a Masters in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University in 2003.

Her professional career began with 6 years experience in retail management. From 2001 to 2007 she served as the Director of the ACE Program at Phoenix College, currently Monica is the Program Director for the Maricopa Community Colleges Nina Scholars Program. She’s passionate about serving students and strongly believes in the empowerment that higher education provides. Monica currently serves on the community board of Teatro Bravo and also served on the ASU Alumni board of Los Diablos from 2003 to 2007. Monica resides in Gilbert with her husband Jorge and son Sebastian.

 

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Stella Torres
Director, Acheiving a College Education (ACE)

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Michelle Traveler, M.B.A.
Programmer Analyst

Michelle Traveler, has worked for the Maricopa Community College System for over 17 years.  Her tenure with MCCCD spans several colleges and various departments.  She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Criminal Justice Studies from Arizona State University, and both a Graduate Certificate and an MBA in Business Management with an emphasis in Information Systems from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University. She is a Ph.D. Doctoral candidate at Capella University.

A product of South Mountain Community College, Michelle is currently a Programmer Analyst in the District Office Student Affairs department. She also adjunct faculty at South Mountain Community College.

She works with Student Affairs staff in developing programs and systems to address the technological needs for various areas and groups. Working with district office IT, she investigates, prepares and presents recommendations for implementation to upgrade, innovate, and maintain websites, processes, and other applications as requested by personnel.

Michelle has two children, Dairion and Andressia who are both students at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.

 

Pam has been with Maricopa Community Colleges since 2007.  A Navajo from New Mexico, Pam has been working with Native American communities and students since 1997.  Having attained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, Pam returned to the southwest in 1997.  Thereafter, she relocated to Tempe, Arizona to pursue her graduate degree.  Achieving her Masters in Counseling from Arizona State University in 2003, she continued her work endeavors with students as a school counselor and a prevention specialist. 

She first joined Maricopa Community Colleges as Coordinator of Recruitment Programs for the Maricopa ACE Program.  She led the ACE Native American Initiative for over a year.  She also spent 6 months leading the Jr. ACE Project as the Interim Director of Jr. ACE Programs.  Pam now serves as Director of Early Outreach Programs/Native American Programs.  Supporting the educational goals of the Native American communities and tribal nations has always been a vision Pam has believed in.

Pam and her husband Garrison, reside in Chandler with three nieces.  They enjoy traveling and spending time with family and friends.