
Christopher Darville
The College recently welcomed Christopher Darville as an intern executive assistant to the chancellor. His primary duties will be to assist San Jacinto College Chancellor Dr. Brenda Lang Hellyer with special projects, focusing especially on a diversity initiative, which is a concerted effort to attract and retain more African-Americans, Latinos, and people of other minority races as administrators, faculty, staff, and students at San Jacinto College.
Darville graduated from Woodlawn High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and then attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in general studies with minors in history, political science, and African American studies. He earned a master’s in applied sociology from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.
Darville served as a sociology instructor at River Parishes Community College in rural Sorrento, Louisiana, where he also served on the college’s Quality Enhancement Plan committee and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaffirmation committee. Christopher also served as a faculty member at Dillard University of New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.
Darville is completing his doctoral student internship at San Jacinto College through the Community College Leadership Program of the University of Texas at Austin, where he plans to earn a doctorate of education degree. He says he was attracted to San Jacinto College because of the College’s positive reputation.
“I attended some classes with Dr. Hellyer at the University of Texas at Austin, and I was equally amazed with the chancellor’s intellect and humble personality,” Darville commented. “After visiting San Jacinto College with UT’s Community College Leadership Program, I discovered that Dr. Hellyer’s traits were not the exception at San Jacinto, but the norm.”
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