Victoria Quijano, MPH, EdD is the Chief Academic Officer and Co-founder at EDvance College where she provides executive leadership for the Office of Academic Affairs. She brings 30 years of distinguished experience in higher education and began her career as faculty in the Public Health Department at San Francisco State University where she was instrumental in the design and implementation of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. During her tenure at SFSU, she also served as the Director of Undergraduate Community Practice where she built the infrastructure for a strong practicum experience to ensure a college-to-career pathway and public health workforce.
Dr. Quijano’s core expertise is focused on designing and implementing high-impact practices and academic programs, all grounded in an authentic student-centered approach dedicated to maximizing student achievement and excellence. Her work centers on professional workforce preparation, including developing robust competency-based learning, strategically sequencing and scaffolding workforce-aligned curriculum, and creating contextualized general education to ensure rigorous alignment with accreditation standards, workforce needs, and the institutional mission. Dr. Quijano’s research, practice, and passion has always been writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum, and that passion is evident in EDvance College’s reimagined model of higher education. Dr. Quijano also designed The EDvance Way as standard pedagogical practice at EDvance College where faculty are trained to apply this dynamic set of intentional teaching strategies to foster competency, confidence, engagement, and belonging among students.