Sondlo Leonard (Len) Mhlaba, PhD 27 Owatonna Street Newton, Massachusetts 02466 Home-617-964-3657 Cell-617-650-7522 sm1ad301e@westpost.

net Summary of Skills Innovative educator with an entrepreneurial orientation and notable achievements in a variety of settings,including secondary, post secondary and international education. Broad experience in academic programs of public and private colleges, including reviewing academic programs at other colleges during accreditation vis its as part of NEASC Visiting Teams. Maximum number of staff supervised: 380. Maximum budget managed directly: $10 million. Professional Experience February 2011 - Present: Dean, Division of Mathematics, Behavioral & Social Scie nces, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, Massachusetts. This is a recent assignment, following a reorganization that equalized academic division responsibilities. Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is the largest and most diverse community c ollege in Massachusetts. Founded in 1973, BHCC enrolls approximately 13,000 stu dents in day, afternoon, evening, late-evening, midnight, weekend, hybrid, web-b ased and distance-learning courses and programs each semester. The College is in ternationally recognized for the development of individualized and alternative m ethods of instruction and attracts hundreds of international students. It has over 140 full time faculty, 0ver 300 adjunct faculty, and two collective bargaining unions. January 2003 - February 2011: Dean, Division of Arts & Sciences, Bunker Hill Com munity College. Responsibilities: * Responsible for close to 70% of the College(tm)s enrollment made up of close t o 900 course sections per semester. * Supervised 67 full time professors, 300 adjunct instructors, 12 professional and clerical staff, 7 department chairs and the Executive Director of the Intern ational Center. Department Chairs coordinated the following areas: English, Eng lish as a Second Language (ESL), Foreign Languages, Science and Engineering, History and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Behavioral Sciences, Music and Theater. * Supervised the International Center that recruited and enrolled over 700 stude nts annually, representing over 90 countries. * Managed a budget of $6 million. Accomplishments * Contributed to enrollment growth from 7,000 to 12,500 students in five years b y hiring and orienting new full time and adjunct faculty, and adding more course s in the evening, late evening, midnight and weekends.

* Supervised Program Reviews, some of them for the first time in the history of the College. These included: Biology, Chemistry, Behavioral Sciences, General C oncentration, Mathematics, English, ESL, and Foreign Languages. These Reviews le d to many curricula and program improvement. * Supervised revision of the calculus series, differential equations,and linear algebra to make our mathematics courses equivalent to those of our transfer inst itutions. * Revised the developmental math series and experimented with a variety of instr uctional approaches, leading to an increase in student success rates in developm ental math by ten percentage points in two years. * Established a Math Computer Lab that now supports several pilot programs aimed at increasing student success rates in developmental math. * Transformed science degree programs from the Associate of Arts to the Associat e of Science in order to build a stronger science curriculum and enable our grad uates to transfer as juniors. Prior to this change, graduates were losing a year and transferring as sophomores. * Established the following new degree programs: Biological Sciences,Biotechnol ogy Option, Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Option. * Won the Silver Standard for BHCC(tm)s Biotechnology degree program from the st atewide Massachusetts biotechnology education consortium. * Partnered with the Boston Museum of Science, Tufts University and UMass Boston to introduce several services and opportunities that support STEM students (Sci ence, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Services included paid internshi ps, research opportunities, and admission to selective colleges. * Developed marketing and recruitment strategies that led to increases in international student recruitment, making BHCC among the top 40 com munity colleges, nationally, in enrolling international students. * Contributed significantly to the creation of BHCC(tm)s program of midnight cou rse offerings, a program that received international media coverage. 2001-2003, Director of the Academic Resource Center, Massasoit Community College, Brockton, Massachusetts. Massasoit Community College is a comprehensive, two-year institution of higher e ducation offering a full range of career and transfer degree programs, and crede ntialled certificates in a variety of fields. The College has a well-developed theater arts program that serves the student body and the greater Brockton community. Its students support services include an extensive Academic Resource Center. Responsibilities: Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Academic Resource Center which i ncluded specialized services for Mathematics, World Languages, Writing, and acad emic support services for students in the Nursing and other Health professions. 1993-2001: Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics & Sciences; Director, Acad emic Resource & Writing Centers: Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts.

Wentworth Institute of Technology , located on Boston(tm)s Avenue of the Arts and a charter member of the Fenway Consortium of Colleges, provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary, project-based education in engineering, technology, design and management that integrates classroom, laboratory, studio, cooperative and experiential learning resulting in a career-ready, skilled profe ssional and engaged citizen. The Institute is nationally recognized for its Co-o p Program and its comprehensive program on the built environment, from Architect ure to Facilities Management. Responsibilities: Taught Mathematics and Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Sciences and directed the Institute(tm)s Academic Resource and Writing Centers. 1991-1993: Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. Responsibilities: Coordinated the college(tm)s marketing and recruitment with the Admissions Office, supervised evening and weekend degree programs, represented t he Institute on the Coordinating Committee of what was then a twenty-eight membe r Boston Compact as well as on the College Board,and performed other duties at t he Dean(tm)s discretion. Accomplishments: * Chaired a faculty Committee that reviewed the Department of Computer Science and proposed curriculum modifications, including replacing some computer programming languages that were no longer used in industry. * Created and implemented the first Institute(tm)s Freshman Mentor Program that won a Presidential Citation in 1992. 1983-1990: Regional Director, Northeast USA, Youth for Understanding (YFU). YFU International Exchange is one of the world(tm)s largest and highly regarded youth exchange agencies. It was established by Michigan volunteers after the Sec ond World War. YFU(tm)s mission was to re-establish friendships between America n and German peoples. By the 1990s, YFU was exchanging over 3,000 students aroun d the world annually and was helping to create future world leaders through such exchanges as the Japan/US Senate and US Congress/German Bundestag Youth Exchang es. Responsibilities: Served as the chief executive officer of the Northeast US office, with offices i n Boston and a service area that included New Jersey, New York and the six New E ngland states. Supervised a central staff of 7 people, 16 field managers, and se veral hundred volunteers in a regional office that ranked 4th or better out of 13 regions in both inbound and outbound program s. Accomplishments: * Trained field managers and volunteers from two formerly separate regional offi ces and integrated them into one larger and highly motivated Northeast US team.

* Helped develop a new branding campaign by serving on a Corporate Headquarters communications/marketing task force, which developed marketing materials and a n ew company logo. 1979-1983: Deputy Administrator, Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities & Development (EOCD), Division of Social and Economic Opportunity (SEO). EOCD was one of ten cabinet level agencies of state government. Its statutory areas of responsibility included all the Commonwealth( tm)s 351 cities and towns, Massachusetts Redevelopment Authorities (MRAs), Publi c Housing Authorities (PHAs), and the state(tm)s anti-poverty programs and polic ies, including providing funding and technical assistance to community based org anizations and community development corporations. Responsibilities: Oversaw the state(tm)s antipoverty programs that had, previously, been the responsibility of the federal government since the Kennedy years. This included developing the entire distribution plan for community services block gr ant funds throughout the state; drafting all applicable administrative and polic y manuals, drafting enabling legislation that was promulgated by the State Legis lature to govern the antipoverty programs, providing training, technical assista nce, and evaluation of grantees. Managed a budget of over $10 million. Accomplishments: * Helped rebuild staff morale and improve agency performance, with assistance from an external consultant. The SEO Division had grown by more than ten times in a few years and was experiencing major staffing and performance challenges. * Smooth transition of government in the SEO Division and uninterrupted services to agencies and citizens during the 1982-1983 change of Governor and administration. 1976-1979: Associate Director for State and Local relations, Executive Office of Communities & Development (EOCD) Responsibilities: As the Divisional Ombudsman of the Executive office of Communities and Developme nt (EOCD), mediated in a variety of situations involving federal, state, and loc al entities to ensure that government was responsive to the needs of citizens an d communities. Accomplishments: * Created a Minority Issues Task Force and arranged meetings for it with the Governor to ensure that minority issues were understood and addressed. * Helped establish the Governor(tm)s Advisory Council on Puerto Rican and Hispanic Affairs and served as its Liaison with the Administration. * Provided advice to the Cabinet Secretary on Indian affairs during the difficult days of Indian land claims, while serving as Liaison with the Massachusetts Commission on

Indian Affairs. Education: 2000: PhD, Law, Policy & Society, Northeastern University, Boston,Massachusetts. 1979: Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies, Harvard Graduate School of Design. 1973: M.Ed. Science Education & Certificate in High School Physics Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1970: BS. Degree, Physics, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York. Teaching Experience: Mathematics: Northfield Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Massachusetts. Mathematics and College Physics: Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston Massachusetts. Awards and Honors: Elected by Bunker Hill Community College faculty and staff to serve as Assistant Marshall for the 2011 Graduation Ceremonies,an honor rarely accorded an administrator. Certificate of Appreciation from the Wentworth Alumni Association. Achievement Citation from the President of Wentworth Institute of Technology for the Mentor Program. Achievement Citation from the President and Board of Trustees of Youth For Understanding. Governor(tm)s Achievement Citation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Recent Grants and Partnerships: * Partnered with the University of Massachusetts at Boston on a National Science Foundation grant that supports programs under the Louis Stocks Alliance for Minority Programs (LSAMP) which promotes careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for minorities and women. * Partnered with Boston area high schools on a state-funded program in which Bunker Hill Community College mathematics and science (STEM) faculty and Boston area high school STEM teachers worked together to improve student success and to help create a seamless transition from high school to college. Sample of Writings:

Community Colleges in the System of American Higher Education, translated into Portuguese and published in the Brazilian national education journal: BOLETIN TECHNICO do SENAC, Volume 33, Mario/August 2007 Incentive-Based Franchise: A New Model for World Governance, (Llumina Press, January 2005) School-to-Career Success: A Manual for Teachers, (Team-authored with teachers from Boston Public Schools and area colleges, and published under the auspices of the Boston Higher Education Information Center, Boston, MA. 1998.) "The Efficacy of International Regulation of Transborder Data Flows: The Case for the Clipper Chip" (Government Information Quarterly, Winter 1995-96) "Who Decides What Our Children See, Learn, and Do on the Internet?"(The Trotter Review, 1996, University of Massachusetts Boston.) "White Doctor, Black Music: What Dr. Goldberg's Mbira Taught Me" (COMMONWEAL, 1994), reprinted in the Wentworth Alumni Magazine, Winter 1995. Current Memberships: Massachusetts Council of Academic Division Administrators (CADA) World Future Society References: Available upon request from all supervisors from the last 25 years.