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Fall Conference 2025
The Marriott Hotel, Irvine
October 20-24, 2025
Carter Doran Leadership Award 2024-2025
The California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers (CCCCIO) Board is proud to announce the winner of 2024-2025 Carter Doran Award.
Each year, the CCCCIO Board awards the Carter Doran Award to an outstanding Chief Instructional Officer (CIO), who best exemplifies the leadership qualities embodied by Carter Doran in his role as teacher/dean at Mt. San Antonio and Vice President of Instruction at Santa Ana and College of the Canyons. The recipient of the Carter Doran Award is chosen from the following criteria:
- Demonstrates leadership from the heart
- Demonstrates creativity
- Shows sustained commitment to addressing instructional challenges
- Has made a profound impact on a college and/or professional organization
We are honored to recognize Ms. Tram Vo-Kumamoto, VP of Instruction at Saddleback College, as the recipient of the 2024-2025 Carter Doran Award.
Ms. Vo-Kumamoto brings 28 years of experience in California’s community college system, demonstrating a deep commitment to student equity in access and success, as well as institutional transformation. Tram has served in the role of CIO at Saddleback College for over eight years, and before that, she served for three years at Berkeley City College. In all those years, her dedication to supporting the academic community of faculty and CIOs has been unmatched. She has been an active member of the California Community College Chief Instructional Officers (CCCCIO) Board since 2019, serving in the roles of Region 8 representative, Vice President, President-Elect, and serving as President of the Board in 2022-2023.
As the CIO co-chair of the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) Common Course Numbering Taskforce, Tram played a pivotal role in developing recommendations for implementing common course numbering across the system to improve student mobility and success. Her expertise serving her colleagues on the Consultation Council, her dedicated service as a Board member, and her work with the ASCCC’s curriculum committee (5C) and curriculum institute, have contributed to our colleges in immeasurable ways. In all this work, Tram skillfully navigated difficult conversations, challenging members to think in innovative ways, while respecting the principles of shared governance. Tram’s dedication and thoughtful leadership has created lasting and immeasurable change for the entire community college system and, especially, in support of the work of the CIOs, faculty, and the students we serve.
Colleagues note that in her role as CCCCIO Board president, “Vo-Kumamoto always asks the timely “why” questions, while challenging others to think deeply about whatever issue required a thoughtful decision.” In her current role as Past-President, Tram is the conscience of the Board and never wavers from ensuring every policy and action considers the importance of the diversity of our system and the students we serve. Her work championing the CCCCIO’s Advancing Leadership Institute for Instructional VPs in Equitable Education (ALIVE) program, and her fierce commitment to diversifying our CIO ranks, has moved our organization forward in untold ways. Dr. Isabel O’Connor, President of the CCCCIO Board said of Vo-Kumamoto, “Tram is one of the most humble people I know and while always reminding us to be better, never seeks the spotlight or her own personal recognition. It is in this way that Tram Vo-Kumamoto most emulates Carter Doran and why this recognition is both welcome and deserved”.
Please join us in offering our heartfelt congratulations to our exceptional colleague, Tram Vo-Kumamoto!