Terrence Willett

Terrence Willett has over 25 years of experience in institutional research and planning and currently serves at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office as the Visiting Assistant Vice Chancellor of Data, Visualization, and Research. Prior to this role, he was Dean of Research, Planning, and Institutional Effectiveness at Cabrillo College, where he had been a math and science tutor when a student there.

Terrence also previously worked at Gavilan College and for the California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS) as Director of Research and as a Senior Researcher for The RP Group on the Multiple Measures Assessment Project (MMAP) and other efforts, including Student Support (Re)Defined. He has also been a Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) coach for several colleges. Terrence served on accreditation teams for Ohlone and Rio Hondo Colleges as well as on the AB 705 Implementation Workgroup, as an alternate on the Matriculation Advisory Committee, and on the CTE Outcomes Survey Advisory Committee. His recent publications include a chapter titled “Assessing Equity with Traditional and Novel Metrics in Times of Change” in Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education, Volume Two, and co-author of a chapter on remediation reform in Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher.

Terrence earned a BA in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MS in environmental studies from San José State University, with his thesis research “Spiders and Other Arthropods as Indicators in Old‐Growth Versus Logged Redwood Stands,” conducted in and around Big Basin Redwoods State Park.