Carla Chance and Joann Ordinachev, Ph.D., announced their resignation.
Joann Ordinachev
STLCC seeks to fill the subdistrct 3 representative position on the STLCC Board of Trustees after Joann Ordinachev, Ph.D., announced her resignation.
Ordinachez made the announcement at the Oct. 28 Board of Trustees meeting in the STLCC Cosand Center. She resigned due to personal reasons.
“During her 16 years as a member of the board, Joann has been a real advocate for St. Louis Community College and its students on the state, regional and national levels,” said Melissa Hattman, STLCC board chair. “We wish her the best and thank her for her service to the college.”
Ordinachev represented STLCC as an associate committee member with the Association of Community College Trustees and president of the Trustee department on the Missouri Community College Association Board of Directors.
“I feel very good about the timing of my resignation, as I have fulfilled my campaign promise to ensure that the college remained fiscally viable while working to support its mission,” Ordinachev said.
Subdistrict 3 includes the southern and southwest portions of St. Louis City and the school districts of Maplewood-Richmond Heights, Affton, Bayless, Hancock, Brentwood and Webster Groves.
Carla Chance
Carla Chance resigned after 12 years as the STLCC vice chancellor for finance and business services and is now the Vice President-Administration at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Ohio.
Chance served as the chairperson of the Missouri Community College Association Presidents/Chancellors Council and led the district through a 7 percent reduction in state funding for the 2011 fiscal year
Furthermore, Chance is a member of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges, and was a member of the St. Louis chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Until 1999, Chance served as the chief administrative officer for six years at Northern Kentucky University. She holds a juris doctorate from Northern Kentucky’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law and a master’s degree in higher education from the University of Kentucky.