Juanita Ortiz

Juanita Ortiz is the Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Oklahoma City Community College. She previously served as Executive Director of Institutional Advancement and Dean of the Social Sciences Division at Rose State College and as a tenure-track faculty member in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Illinois-Springfield. Through these positions, Juanita has overseen campus strategic planning and staff professional development and has contributed to campus accreditation and assessment efforts. She is a Higher Learning Commission Peer Reviewer and a graduate of The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) Academic Leadership Fellows Academy, the Educational Administrators Academy, and the Higher Ed Department Chair Academy. Juanita has served as a program mentor for the UCO Educators Leadership Academy programs since 2021, and she has also taught as an adjunct instructor for the University of Oklahoma Sociology Department since 2018. 

Juanita earned all of her degrees from the University of Oklahoma. She earned bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Political Science; a master’s degree in Sociology; and a Doctorate in Sociology, with emphasis in Criminology and Stratification. Juanita’s research areas include female criminal offending and prisoner recidivism/reentry, with her work on women’s criminal recidivism included in the book, Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners (Rutgers University Press).