Guilford Technical Community College announce executive changes to help bolster strategic goals
Published on: October 7, 2025
JAMESTOWN, N.C., (October 7, 2025) – Guilford Technical Community College has announced an executive reorganization and reassignment plan with a goal of more effectively accomplishing strategic goals for the next five years.
“To better implement the college’s 2025-2030 strategic plan, we are reorganizing areas and reassigning some executive responsibilities,” said GTCC President Anthony Clarke, Ph.D. “This reorganization will enable us to more effectively achieve our strategic goals focused on people, pathways, partnership, operational excellence, and institutional growth.”
Beth Pitonzo, Ph.D., who has served in executive roles at GTCC for more than a decade, has been promoted to the college’s senior vice president for college and workforce instruction and will be responsible for student success, program management, and economic development/workforce initiatives for the college. Pitonzo will continue her work to improve the integration of all college instructional pathways, including curriculum, workforce/continuing education, and basic skills/adult education instruction.
Pitonzo earned a post graduate certificate in educational leadership from Harvard University; doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada, Reno; and associate equivalent in clinical laboratory sciences at the University of Utah.
Cheryl Bryant-Shanks, Ph.D., has been promoted to vice president of human resources. In her new role, Bryant-Shanks will be responsible for the college’s strategic priority of supporting employees through a professional development philosophy based in learning, development, and high performance. She has served as GTCC’s associate vice president of human resources for the past five years.
Bryant-Shanks earned a doctorate in leadership studies from North Carolina A&T University and both a master’s and bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Manuel Dudley, Ph.D., the college’s vice president of workforce and continuing education the past five years, has been named GTCC’s first chief officer for strategic and industry partnerships. Dudley will be charged with increasing the number of partnerships created by the economic growth in Guilford County, including employers, other community colleges, universities, and economic development and community organizations. He will work to develop new partnerships, maintain existing partnerships across assigned industry sectors, and generate new community and business partners.
Dudley has a doctorate in leadership studies from North Carolina A&T University and a master’s degree in human development from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Kristen Corbell, Ph.D., has been promoted to associate vice president for institutional research and adult education with responsibility for institutional research, basic skills/adult education, human resources development instruction, workforce and continuing education pathways, and full-time enrollment auditing.
For more than six years Corbell has served as the college’s director of institutional research where she developed, conducted, and coordinated GTCC’s research activities. Previously, Corbell spent six years at the NC Community College System office working with the Title II Adult Education program focused on research and performance management. In addition, she spent nearly two years with the Triangle Literacy Program overseeing its adult education program, among others.
Corbell earned a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from North Carolina State University, where she also completed a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction.
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