DE Advisory Mission: The Distance Education Committee exists to meet the instructional, communication, computing, and research needs of the students, and faculty, of Ventura College.  The mission of the committee is to focus on the delivery of distance education and its environment be it web enhanced on ground courses, hybrid courses or fully on line courses, and to take a proactive leadership role on educational, technological and professional development issues surrounding distance education.

OUR GOAL: Our greatest wish is to provide services and quality education in the distance education format that will enhance students' opportunities to be successful in their educational pursuits. We have established a goal to improve student success in distance education classes to equal that of face to face classes.

DE Advisory Team Members: Ali Olson-Pacheco (IDT), Andrea Horigan (Sociology, Co-Chair), Ara Khanjian (Economics), Araceli Trujillo (Spanish), Asher Sund (English), Brand Damico (Counseling), Chloe Branciforte (Geology), Corinna McKoy (Political Sciences), Gwendolyn Lewis_Huddleston (Dean), John Elmer (EAC), Margaret Phelps (Art History), Matthew Moore (IDT), Michael Ward (History), Niki Milani (Psychology), Ray Tracy (History), Ryan Petitfils (Mathematics), Sharon Oxford (IDT), Stephanie Branca (Business)