KC Greaney, MA, PhD, EdD

KC Greaney received a Bachelor of Arts in both History and Spanish from University of California, Berkeley, followed by a Master of Arts in History from University of California, San Diego, where she focused on United States Ethnic and Immigrant History. She then achieved a second Master of Arts in Higher Education and Organizational Change with a focus on College Access and Equity from University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned her PhD. Her dissertation examined how college mediates upward mobility.

For over two decades, KC served in prominent institutional research, planning, and effectiveness (IRPE) roles at both Napa Valley College and Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC). During seven of those years, she also served as Executive Director for the California Community Colleges'(CCC) Career & Technical Education Employment Outcomes Survey (CTEOS), which she helped develop from the initiation. Her leadership led to statewide deployment of CTEOS, which contributed substantially in assisting all CCCs to better understand their students'success and to advocate for the important role career and technical education plays within our community college system.

In related work, KC has been recognized for contributing to the development of the statewide skills-builder metric, which led to her receiving the RP Group Award for Excellence in Regional/Statewide Research in 2016. She also served as a member of the Vocational Education Research & Accountability Technical (VERATAC) Advisory Committee. These contributions have had significant and positive impact on planning and policies related to CTE at individual colleges and throughout the state.

Through her leadership of the Office of Institutional Research at SRJC, the institution was able to better support students, faculty, staff, and the campus community during the devastating fires of 2017, as well as through the challenges faced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond these two prominent areas, KC has contributed in numerous other ways to the broader IRPE field. Some of the highlights include her work as a founding member of the North Bay Regional Consortium for The RP Group, as well as her service on the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), CCC Apply Steering Committee, and the Student Success Metrics Workgroup.

KC is a thoughtful connector and collaborator. She developed and implemented the SRJC Student Survey in 2001 for institutional planning purposes and shared both the tool and the findings with other colleges. She also served on a statewide project that developed an early Basic Skills Survey of Effective Practices. She developed and implemented the Citizen Researcher Campaign at SRJC that was featured in "Get Startedâ Data Coaching to Inform Guided Pathways Development." Over the years, KC presented dozens of times at The RP Group's RP and Strengthening Student Success conferences, as well as at CAIR, AIR, ACCCA, and CCCAOE events to share her expertise with the IRPE field and broader CCC system.

KC has continued to expand her own education through her attendance at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Fellows Program in Washington DC for training and then by presenting her learnings through The RP Group. Her community-minded spirit and service have added to the development of products that have been widely recognized and adopted, made significant contributions to policy, and provided overall leadership. She has continued to serve the community, even after her retirement from SRJC in 2019 by working on the Statewide COVID-19 Impact Surveys of Students and Employees's among other projects.

We are so proud to honor and celebrate KC Greaney and her lifetime of achievements in service to the IRPE community and strengthening student success throughout the CCC system.