Mostafa Ghous - Vice President of Student Support
With over 31 years of enriching experience in higher education, Mostafa emerges as a beacon of transformative leadership. As the Dean of Academic Affairs at Hartnell College, his visionary guidance shaped the educational landscape. He provided leadership for all student services and instruction for the newly expanded King City Education Center, the new Soledad Education Center, the Teacher Pathway Program, Continuing Education, ESL, Salinas Valley Adult Education Consortium, Rising Scholars, online learning, and non-credit and credit transferable classes. At the heart of his tenure lies a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion igniting a fervent campaign for social and restorative justice.
His illustrious career spans from leading student equity and achievement planning at Berkeley City College as the director of campus life to pioneering initiatives for marginalized communities at Solano College as the director of MESA, student development, and health center. Mostafa's impact resonated in Everett Community College, where his diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative reverberated through the corridors of academia, fostering collaboration and empowerment. He led an anti-racist community response plan and social justice task force with a collaborative team of faculty, staff, and community leaders. He led Strategic Enrollment Management plans to increase underrepresented student enrollment.
Mostafa's philanthropic endeavors have raised over $15 million in alternative funding to support students. His journey from refugee and immigrant roots to academic eminence serves as an inspiring narrative, fueling his passion to pave avenues of success for generations to come. Mostafa is a first-generation college graduate and earned his AA and AS from Modesto Junior College, BS from UC Santa Cruz, MA in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in Student Affairs from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, and he will earn his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from CSU Fresno.
Mr. Mostafa Ghous, Vice President of Student Support
Email: mghous@vcccd.edu
AnnMarie McCarthy, Senior Administrative Assistant
Email: annmarie_mccarthy2@vcccd.edu
Phone: (805) 553-4136