The district has allocated special funding, however, for academic advising, he notes. The funding will allow the colleges to hire more academic advisors in response to complaints by students who say service has been inadequate. Cardenas has embraced the opportunity to take leadership roles. We are leaders. We must be at the cutting edge if we are going to be leaders.
Leaders do innovative and creative things.
He praises the changes in the system over the past few years. While being chancellor has been the pinnacle of his career, C rdenas says, he misses the students. During his presidency at PVCC, he was known to frequent the PVCC Fitness Center, sweating along side the best of them. Cardenas has held college administrative positions for 29 years. Prior to becoming president at PVCC, he was president of South Mountain Community College.