Tom Raga gets job with Sinclair

From Sinclair Community College:

Tom Raga, former State Representative from Warren County, has been named Senior Director of Regional Strategy and Development for Sinclair Community College. The appointment, effective immediately, was announced by Sinclair President Steven Lee Johnson.

Raga (Mason 45040) will report directly to President Johnson and will join the newly reorganized senior leadership team that is developing new strategies to increase college enrollment and attainment across the region. These strategies will include new programs and partnerships with urban and suburban schools, with colleges and universities, with corporations, and with elected officials. Sinclair’s official service district includes Montgomery and Warren counties in Ohio. However, its students come from more than a dozen Ohio counties and Sinclair is often called upon to provide regional and statewide two-year college service leadership.

“Tom will focus his energy on our regional development and expansion of access to college,” said President Johnson. “He will work with external organizations that are keys to our success including school districts, colleges and universities, local industry and business, government and economic development organizations.”

Raga served three terms in the Ohio House of Representatives and was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2006. In the House, he served as Vice Chair of its Finance and Appropriations Committee and as a member on the Agriculture and Development and Primary and Secondary Education subcommittees. He is a former Deerfield Township Trustee (1998-2000).

Raga is affiliated with the Warren County Foundation, Warren County Humane Association, Farm Bureau, and Warren County: Strengthening Our Families. In 2000, he was named by The Cincinnati Enquirer as one of “Tri-State’s 21 to Watch.”

Raga is a Moeller High School (Cincinnati) and Cornell University graduate. He holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics.