Dr. Mitjl Carvalho Capet - Dr. Mitjl Carvalho Capet Resume.pdf

Dr. Mitjl Carvalho Capet is currently the Assistant Superintendent/Vice President of Instruction for the Santa Clarita Community College District/College of the Canyons. College of the Canyons (COC) is a multi-campus college serving 25,000 students with a 100 million dollar yearly budget. His scope is all the instructional operations for the district involving 200 fulltime faculty, 450 adjunct faculty, and 200 support staff spread over two brick and mortar campuses and one virtual campus. Within the instructional area are a Small Business Development Center, a Center for Applied and Competitive Technologies (CACT), and a large contract training program, all designed to serve the regional business communities. He also oversees two Child Development Centers and a Bill and Melinda Gates four year Early College High School.

He has served as the Vice President of Student Learning at Cerro Coso College within the Kern Community College District. The Cerro Coso service area included multiple sites spread over 18,000 square miles of several counties. He served as Dean of Business, Arts, and Applied Technologies at Rio Hondo College in Whittier. The college had an enrollment of sixteen thousand, and he managed 26 degree programs and 21 certificate programs in both the academic and occupational areas. His division had everything from Auto to English as a Second Language. Included in the division was the Multi-Cultural Institute that provided a cultural season for the college and the community. Before coming to Rio Hondo, he was the Interim Assistant to the Interim Vice President of Instruction at Imperial Valley College. At the same college he had been the chairperson of the Humanities Division. Concurrent with this academic position, he was also the Executive Director of the County Arts Council, a branch of the California Arts Council. In that context, he provided programming to 19 school districts and two tribal nations spread over 4,300 square miles.

Through the arts council, he also managed a multi-million dollar contract education program for the California Department of Corrections, servicing all the prisons in Southern California. Before moving to the community college system, he served as the subject area specialist for Beverly Hills Unified Schools. In that post he met the needs of a major K-12 urban district. His educational background is varied. He holds a BA and an Ed.D. from UCLA, a certificate from Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, and an MFA from the Catholic University of America. He also has specialized Leadership Training through the Claremont Graduate School and interest Based Bargaining training through the California Teachers’ Association. He is also a graduate of the Dale Tillery Institute for Community College Leadership at UC Berkeley. Capet has been active in state and regional professional groups both as a Dean and as a Chief Instructional Officer. He has held statewide office. On the local level he is active in Child and Family Centers, Arts Advisory Groups, School to Business Alliance, Chamber of Commerce, and neighborhood associations.