Meet the Accreditation Team

Monica Green

Team Chair

Dr. Monica Green was appointed President of Norco College in March 2020. Before taking on this role, she served as the interim president and previously led Riverside City College as the Vice President of Planning and Development and served as the Accreditation Liaison Officer. From 2009 to 2018, Dr. Green was the Dean and later the Vice President of the Norco College Student Services division, where she was instrumental in developing, implementing, and evaluating programs aimed at supporting student access, equity, and success.

Since 2006, Dr. Green has been deeply involved in the institutional self-evaluation process, providing leadership in Standard IIC for over nine years and serving on the Accreditation Steering Committee from Norco College’s initial accreditation through its most recent reaffirmation in 2020.

Additionally, Dr. Green has served on several peer review teams, including as a team chair, contributing her expertise both at single-college and multi-college districts and as a district peer review team member at a multi-college district.

Charles Sasaki

Team Vice Chair

Charles Sasaki is the President/Superintendent of Ohlone College, located in the Southeastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. A graduate of UC Riverside and UC Irvine, Sasaki began his career in Southern California as a part-time EOPS program assistant and adjunct faculty member, teaching ethnic studies and history in California Community Colleges. He later moved to Washington and Hawaii, where he earned faculty tenure and took on various administrative roles, including Department Chair, Dean, Chief Diversity Officer, Senior Student Affairs Officer, and Chief Academic Officer. After 30 years away, he returned to California to lead Ohlone College.

Sasaki has extensive experience with the ACCJC peer review process, having served on three peer review teams, and has supported the evaluation of all four standards, with particular strength in Eligibility Requirements, Standard 1, and Standard 4. This is his first time serving as Vice Chair.

Eric Rabitoy

Professor of Biological Sciences

Eric Rabitoy recently marked 30 years of dedicated service within the California Community College system at Citrus College. Throughout his career at Citrus College, he has contributed as both a faculty member in the Biological Sciences Department and as a dean for the Natural, Physical, and Health Sciences Department. During his 12 years as faculty, Eric chaired numerous shared governance committees and served as president of the local CTA chapter. In his 18 years as dean, he played a key role in the design, implementation, and establishment of the College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) Program, the Registered Nursing Program, and the Biotechnology Program. Recently, Eric returned to his role as faculty at Citrus College, where he continues to enjoy teaching.

Eric’s accreditation experience includes twice serving as a co-chair for Accreditation Standard II-C, contributing to the development of various ISER sections, and reviewing the final ISER document. Although he has not yet had the opportunity to serve on an ACCJC Accreditation Team, he looks forward to future participation as a member of an accreditation team.

Gabriela Nocito

Dean of Online Education and Learning Resources

Gabriela Nocito, MLIS, is currently the Dean of Online Education & Learning Resources at De Anza College. Her prior academic experience includes serving as the Director of the Learning Commons at Skyline College and the Director of Library Services at the National Hispanic University, where she had multiple opportunities to contribute to those institutions' Institutional Self-Evaluation Reports (ISERs).

In 2022, she participated in the accreditation team for Cosumnes River College, where she assessed the institution against Standard I.C (Mission, Academic Quality, and Institutional Effectiveness—Institutional Integrity) and Standard II.B (Library and Learning Support Services). Most recently, at De Anza College, she has been involved in writing Core Inquiry responses on topics related to Regular and Substantive Interaction in Online Education.

Tammara Whitaker

Associate Dean, Online Education

Dr. Tammara Whitaker is the Associate Dean of Online Education at Santa Monica College, where she has worked in higher education for the past 14 years. In addition to her administrative role, she teaches undergraduate online courses part-time. Dr. Whitaker holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

Although this is her first experience on a peer review team, she is familiar with the accreditation process, having participated in Santa Monica College’s recent review. Her areas of expertise related to accreditation include Professional Development, Distance Education, Student Success, Educational Equity, Curriculum Development, Institutional Planning and Evaluation, Instructional Methodologies, Personnel Policies and Procedures, Educational Technology, and Program Review.

Nickawanna Shaw

Vice President
ACCJC Liaison

Nickawanna Shaw joined the ACCJC team in March 2024. She brings with her 27 years of higher education experience and a dedication to expand equitable access to higher education to all. While her career began on the East Coast and outside of the California community college system, inside the CCC system, she has held numerous faculty and administrative leadership positions, including 16 years as classroom faculty in Kinesiology, where she began her commitment to improving her teaching by learning about and embedding student support practices into her curriculum and studying the physiological conditions that most often interfere with mechanisms of learning. She invested 15 years in the local Academic Senate, eight as President and other executive leadership roles, and two additional years as Curriculum Chair. In her last faculty leadership role, she served as co-chair of a college-wide DEI Gap analysis, working at the request of the Board to evaluate all policies, planning documents, and practices using a modified version of the USC equity toolkit to uncover the unintentional, but present roadblocks for students and staff to engage freely and thrive as members of our college community.