{"id":15163,"date":"2025-12-19T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pueblo-community-college-southwest-names-lisa-molina-as-new-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:45:15","slug":"pueblo-community-college-southwest-names-lisa-molina-as-new-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pueblo-community-college-southwest-names-lisa-molina-as-new-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Pueblo Community College Southwest names Lisa Molina as new vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2548df67-9bba-58d4-a12e-241cf1d84177&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"934\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"Lisa Molina will begin her position as Pueblo Community College Southwest\u2019s new vice president starting on Monday, Jan. 5. (PCC Southwest\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Lisa Molina will begin her position as Pueblo Community College Southwest\u2019s new vice president starting on Monday, Jan. 5. (PCC Southwest\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pueblo Community College Southwest named Lisa Molina, director of student services, vice president. She will begin Monday, Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>As director of student services, Molina oversaw student support, enrollment efforts and regional partnerships, according to a PCC Southwest news release. She joined PCC Southwest in 2018 and earned employee-of-the-year honors in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLisa\u2019s seven years with, and demonstrated commitment to, PCC Southwest, her strong history of leadership in student affairs and her strong references made her the obvious choice for this position,\u201d PCC President Chato Hazelbaker said. \u201cI\u2019m excited for her to begin her work as we create our new strategic plan which includes specific plans for the branch campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Molina has 15 years of experience in student success, advising and higher education leadership. She is from Mio, Michigan, and earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from Alma College and two master\u2019s degrees from Central Michigan University \u2013 one in higher education administration and the other in philanthropy and fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to step into this role and continue serving the southwest region. I look forward to supporting our students and strengthening partnerships,\u201d Molina said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to build on our current momentum and support the continued growth and impact of PCC Southwest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interim Vice President Kevin Aten will remain through Friday, Jan. 30, to assist with the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>named one of PCC\u2019s employees of the year in 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,28,60,29,572,691,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-pueblo-community-college","tag-pueblo-community-college-southwest-campus","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19513,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions\/19513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}