Richard A. Carvajal | Numerous: Points In Increased Training

Carvajal presently serves as president of Valdosta State College, a doctoral-granting, public college situated in Valdosta, Georgia. 

Carvajal turns into the ninth president of Cal Poly Humboldt, and the primary Latino to steer the establishment. 

Carvajal has served as president of Valdosta State College since 2017, the place he led a campuswide consultative goal-setting and strategic planning effort that paved the way in which for a seven-percent enhance in freshman retention and steady year-over-year will increase in enrollment. Below his management, Valdosta State has added packages in information science and different in-demand STEM fields and has considerably elevated hands-on studying alternatives for all majors, whereas retaining and strengthening packages within the arts, enterprise and the well being sciences. 

Previous to main Valdosta State, Carvajal served a 12 months as interim president at Darton State School and 5 years as president of Bainbridge State School, each situated in Georgia. He beforehand held senior management positions at establishments in Washington and Kansas, in addition to administrative positions at liberal arts faculties in South Carolina and Illinois. 

Carvajal is a first-generation faculty graduate and earned a bachelor’s diploma in mass communications and sociology from Oklahoma’s East Central College, a grasp’s in faculty scholar personnel administration from Southern Illinois College at Carbondale, and a doctorate in academic administration from the College of South Carolina.