August 2 Keynote

Andi Adkins Pogue is a Public Services Librarian and Open Educational Resources (OER) Specialist at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. For the past two years, she has been heading up CRC’s efforts to become a zero textbook cost (ZTC) college. Under her leadership, CRC has gone from 162 ZTC sections in fall 2021 to more than 700 ZTC sections (nearly 60%) in spring 2023. Andi is CRC’s liaison for the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges OER Initiative. She also serves as chair of CRC’s Affordable Educational Resources Committee. Andi has authored the OER, Critical Thinking and Information Literacy, and has helped many CRC faculty remix their own OER on the LibreTexts platform.

Andi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of New Mexico and a Masters of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University.

 Mr. James Preston has been the President at West Hills College Lemoore since January 2022. He has 29 years of educational experience including 17 years of teaching and 12 years in various administrative roles. He is committed to the college vision of the "relentless pursuit of student success” and has led a number of initiatives at the college including innovative faculty professional development, program and curriculum support through a Guided Pathways model, and leadership in the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero-Textbook Cost Degrees and Certificates. James has most recently served as the CEO representative on the Chancellor’s Office Taskforce for Burden Free Instructional Materials and just completed his first year on the statewide Affordability Taskforce as a regional CEO representative.