Long Beach Vote 2016

Vivian Williams Malauulu: Latest Primary Election Update

Long Beach Community College Board of Trustees – Area 2:

Vivian Williams Malauulu

(Updated by Long Beach City Clerk: 04/16/2016 10:14 PM)

Trustee-Elect Vivian Williams Malauulu won her seat with 2,794 or 59.40% of the votes. There are 46,562 registered voters in Area 2. Updated unofficial results show that 5,029 votes were cast. That’s a 10.53% participation rate, one of the lowest in last Tuesday’s election.

Vivian Williams Malauulu

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Trustee-Elect

Vision And Mission Statement

“I am very active in our vocational training programs on campus making sure that our students and our veterans, the very unique population that makes Long Beach City College what makes the institution is, that they are properly serviced and represented with our faculty as well as the community at large by building partnerships.”
“Strongly believe the students, faculty, employees, alumni, and our community deserve a voice on our College Board and respectfully request your vote on April 12.”

Political/ Activist/ Business Experience

Vivian Williams Malauulu is a Professor at Long Beach City College –
20 Years with the Unified School District
Southern California District Council – Delegate
Vivian Williams Malauulu is Longshore Worker with Local 13 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union
Vivian Williams Malauulu was also elected to the Executive Board as Chair of the Publicity/Public Relations Committee during the term which covered the 2014-2015 contract negotiations that garnered international publicity for the union, West Coast ports, and the maritime industry.

Education

Vivian Williams Malauulu has a B.A. Degree from California State University Northridge, a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from California State University Dominguez Hills, and four K‐14 teaching credentials.

Issues

From a Long Beach Post article, March 17, 2016

“She said there are three key areas highlighted as points of focus should she win the trustee seat in the April 12 election, but none of them are more important than student achievement. She noted the grim figures for the transfer and graduation rates at LBCC, pointing out that nearly 40 percent of students have a GPA under 2.0, attributing much of that to lack of resources like classrooms but also full-time instructors to teach inside them.

Malauulu said she would re-allocate resources to close the gap between the roughly 200 full-time faculty and 700 with adjunct-status at the school and hire more full-time faculty because the faculty is what makes the College Promise work. In order for it to continue working, she said the instructors need to be able to offer office hours and more fully participate in their students’ education rather than having a majority of the faculty operating as “freeway flyers” and trying to cover their own living expenses.

“They call us freeway flyers because we run out of our office to drive to another community college and then we run out of that one because we have to patch together an income,” Malauulu said of the conditions many adjunct professors work under. “We have to piece together enough to pay our mortgage by teaching at four or five community colleges because the colleges we teach at don’t hire us full time.”