El Camino College President Named a 2017 Wheelhouse Fellow

From El Camino College: El Camino College Superintendent/President Dena P. Maloney was recently named a 2017 Wheelhouse Fellow and will attend the upcoming inaugural Wheelhouse Institute on Leadership.

Maloney was nominated by leaders in education and the advisory board of Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research, based on her achievements and leadership in the community college system.

Housed at the University of California, Davis School of Education, Wheelhouse supports and cultivates current and future community college leaders through professional development and research.

Maloney is one of 25 Wheelhouse Fellows in the inaugural class who will participate in a year-long professional and personal development Institute on Leadership designed for current and aspiring CEOs and senior executives of California community colleges.

Using a multi-discipline, multi-lens curriculum, the Institute on Leadership taps everyday experiences of community college executives for purposeful discourse on organizational change.

Maloney became the sixth superintendent/president in the El Camino Community College District’s nearly 70-year history on February 1, 2016. She began her career in higher education at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita. In 2007, she was named founding dean of the Canyon Country Campus, a new educational center within the Santa Clarita Community College District. Maloney later became assistant superintendent/vice president, with responsibilities for the Canyon Country Campus and economic development. In May 2012, she became the superintendent/president of the West Kern Community College District and Taft College.

A native of the South Bay, Maloney earned a doctorate in education from the University of La Verne, a master’s degree in government from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola Marymount University.

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