Jesse Gallegos
Public Relations Coordinator
Luna Community College
September 23, 2021
Dr. Dani Day is Luna Community College’s new interim vice president of instruction and student services. She began her new duties on Tuesday, Sept. 21.
“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Day to Luna,” said Luna President Dr. Edward Martinez. “Dr. Day has a lot of knowledge and community college experience in both instruction and student services. We are confident Dr. Day will do an outstanding job for Luna.”
From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Day served as vice president of academic services at Collin College in Texas. From 2012 to 2014, she served as associate vice president of teaching and learning at Collin College. Among her duties at Collin College were overseeing career technical education programs, developing and implementing the grants office; providing leadership for the learning assessment and the curriculum development office; serving as a resource for curriculum design and compliance; guiding the development of assessment planning, and serving as the accreditation liaison.
Among Dr. Day’s major accomplishments: increasing grant revenue over $7 million in the first two years; designing and implementing multiple college-wide systems, including program review and innovation grants; providing leadership for the development of an industry-college partnership and completing the reaffirmation of accreditation in 2015.
From 2006 to 2012, Dr. Day was vice president of learning services at Cisco College in Texas where she provided leadership for instruction programs, career, and technical education, distance learning, information technology, learning resources, and student success programs. While at Cisco College, Dr. Day developed systems for dual credit programs and distance learning instruction and completed successful reaffirmation of accreditation. Under Dr. Day, Cisco College increased dual credit enrollment by more than 400 percent.
Dr. Day has also been chairwoman of the language and communication department at Cisco College and taught for many years at the post-secondary, secondary, and elementary levels.
Dr. Day earned her doctorate in education from Northeastern University in Boston in 2015 and a master’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1997.
In 2015, Dr. Day received the Ray Williams Outstanding Leadership Award for Texas Community College Instructional Administrators. Dr. Day has presented and published several dozen research papers. For the last three years, Dr. Day has served as a consultant at the post-secondary level.
“I have been really excited about the incredible potential here at Luna,” said Dr. Day. “Luna is perfectly poised to have a positive impact on the community. My favorite place to work is in a small community college. I’m delighted to be here.”
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Dr. Dani Day is Luna’s interim vice president of instruction and student services.
