Jason Selwitz

I served in the Philippines from 1998-2000 for the US Peace Corps at a national park and co-founded the Palawan Conservation Corps. I have taught energy and water related undergraduate and graduate courses since 2008. I earned my doctorate in Engineering Science from WSU in 2017. I have worked for the WA community and technical college system since 2012. From 2012-2017 at WWCC, I led the development of the Plant Operations curriculum that merged into the Energy Systems Technology degree. From 2017-2019, I served as WWCC's faculty lead for the energy, welding, HVAC, and machining programs at the Walla Walla and Clarkston campuses. Since late 2019, I have served as the dean of applied technology at SPSCC. By fall 2023, I helped SPSCC secure designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) by the National Security Agency (NSA). In late 2023, I absorbed the food and beverage programs, including our Percival Room fine dining enterprise and our Percival Creek Brewing, Cider, and Distilling education and commercial production programs. In fall 2024, after over two years of development, we launched our BS CS degree program. In 2025, we launched our Tumwater Falls Lab for beverage quality assurance testing. I am currently working on developing a new to SPSCC bachelor of applied science degree focused on enterprise management.