Dr. Douglas Treadway has joined the Tri-Valley Learning Corporation (TVLC) to help in several areas critical to the ongoing development of three world-class schools. He offers his expertise in creating innovative, sustainable facilities and learning environments to the TVLC facilities projects. Dr. Treadway will be also be working to formalize partnerships with top-tier regional higher education institutions to provide students at Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory (LVCP) in Livermore, CA, and Tassajara Preparatory High School (Tassajara Prep) in Dublin, CA, with the opportunity to take university-accredited courses and receive full college credit from many of the premier colleges and universities throughout the region. As a first step toward that overarching goal, Dr. Treadway will bring the research and expertise of Stanford University as a higher education partner in the planning and construction of the Livermore Valley Charter School (LVCS) and LVCP facilities. By applying the latest research and best industry practices, Stanford University will be helping LVCS and LVCP build state-of-the-art schools that maximize learning for all students in Livermore, CA, and beyond.

Dr. Treadway is currently serving as Director of the China Extension Program for the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Treadway is also currently serving as Interim President of San Jose City College, a community college with 35,000 students in San Jose, CA. In addition, he has a private consulting practice specializing in organizational and individual leadership development and serves as a visiting professor in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego. Dr. Treadway received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University. He received two post‐doctoral fellowships, one to study international environmental sustainability at Harvard University and the other with the Kellogg Foundation and the University of Minnesota to study the higher education and economic development relationship in Asia/Pacific Rim countries.

Dr. Treadway has taught counseling on the graduate faculty of Oregon State University and undergraduate psychology at the University of Hawaii. He has 15 years experience as a professor of counseling and psychology and 24 years thereafter as a college and university president. His college and university president positions included Ohlone Community College and Shasta Community College in California, University of Montana Western, Southwest Minnesota State University. Dr. Treadway was also Chancellor of the North Dakota University System.

Dr. Treadway is a founding member of the College and University President’s Climate Protection Initiative and is active in the Association of Sustainability in Higher Education and the Society for College and University Planning. He was instrumental in the design and construction of the first new college campus (Ohlone‐Newark) in the world to achieve the Green Building Council’s highest award (Platinum LEED). He also initiated and currently remains affiliated with the first U.S. outsourcing college in China located in the Suzhou Industrial Park. This is China’s new city that is a science and industry/ecological model similar to California’s Silicon Valley.

Dr. Treadway has been an active community, regional and national leader, serving as the president of the board of a regional hospital and president of the board of a community symphony. He also served on a bank board of directors, economic development commission, and an international education association. He was appointed to the advisory council for the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture as the national representative of college and university presidents. He is the author of 20 research and scholarly publications in the fields of higher education, community, and human development. He now lives with his wife Carole in Livermore, CA. They have two children and four grandchildren.