Academic Affairs

DAVID TORRES
District Dean, Institutional Research

As District Dean of Institutional Research, David Torres guides the district's multifaceted research agenda to help inform faculty, staff, administrators, students and the community at-large to assist in better decision-making and planning regarding the college.

The Institutional Research department serves a wide variety of district constituencies and functions. A partial listing of research activities includes: providing student outcomes information to demonstrate the efficacy of matriculation services, providing weekly counts of student enrollment for all campuses and centers, evaluating the effectiveness of RCC's many educational activities and services, providing necessary labor market information for new vocational programs, and validating the assessment/placement scoring system. The department also provides course and student performance information for academic program review and the accreditation self-studies. Institutional Research also provides information support necessary for the Student Equity Plan. He is also the chair of the Human Subjects Review Committee which reviews requests from independent researchers for ethicality before being granted access to RCC students as possible research subjects.  He has presented research findings at regional, state and national conferences and, most recently, he presented the district's Diversity Scorecard project via webinar to community colleges throughout California.

In addition to his research duties, David spent his first seven years at RCC as a part-time evening instructor, teaching courses in Introduction to Sociology and Sociology of Marriage and the Family. He attended California State University Fullerton and earned his BA in Sociology and his MA in Sociology, with an emphasis in Applied Social Research.