Sancho-Madriz Appointed Interim Dean
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The Huntley College of Agriculture will have a new interim dean starting July 1.
Martin Sancho-Madriz, Cal Poly Pomona’s associate vice president of faculty affairs, will take over from Lisa Kessler, who will enter the Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP) next academic year.
University Provost Sylvia Alva announced the appointment.
Sancho-Madriz joined Cal Poly Pomona in 1997 and developed the undergraduate degree program in food science and technology. He was chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science for seven years and represented the College of Agriculture in the Academic Senate for 13 years.
He was appointed associate dean of the College of Environmental Design in 2017 while maintaining faculty retreat rights in the Nutrition and Food Science Department.
Since 2018, Sancho-Madriz has served as the associate vice president for Faculty Affairs, where he has primary oversight and responsibility for planning, and coordinating academic personnel matters and policy implementation. Sancho-Madriz will take a leave from that position to serve as interim dean.
The college will be searching for a permanent dean in the Academic Year 2022-2023 to replace Mary Holz-Clause, who departed in 2017 to become president of University Minnesota-Crookston.
Kessler has served as the interim dean since then. Prior to that, she was the college’s associate dean for four years and a nutrition and food science faculty member since 2007.
Peter Kilduff, professor and chair of the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Management, will continue to serve as the interim associate dean for the college in 2021-22.