Anzar Khaliq, Ph.D.
Chief Learning Officer
Dr. Anzar Khaliq serves as the founding Chief Learning Officer at San Francisco Bay University (SFBU) and the first head of the Center for Empowerment and Pedagogical Innovation (CEPI). In this role, Dr. Khaliq is leading the transformation of SFBU’s pedagogical culture by empowering faculty to deliver exceptional, inclusive teaching, and learning experiences. He combines Universal Design for Learning with student-centered approaches, cultural sustainability, relational pedagogy, adaptive learning environments, and AI-integrated teaching to advance educational practices at the university.
Before joining SFBU, Dr. Khaliq was a founding faculty member at Habib University, Pakistan’s first liberal arts and sciences institution. He held several key leadership roles at Habib, including Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning, overseeing the Centre for Pedagogical Excellence; Assistant Dean of the Dhanani School of Science and Engineering; Founding Director of Integrated Sciences and Mathematics; and co-founder and Director of the Center for Transdisciplinarity, Design, and Innovation.
Dr. Khaliq earned his Doctorate in Experimental Physics and a Master’s in Nano-materials from Sorbonne University, where he worked on some of the most advanced particle accelerators in the world. His scientific rigor, combined with a unique blend of creativity, is shaped by his decade-long career as a radio jockey and training in improvisational theater. These experiences greatly inform his innovative teaching approaches, which he now applies in SFBU’s newly designed General Education curriculum.
Xuenan Cao, Ph.D.
I am a scholar of science, technology, and society. My world began in my mother's office at the Zhengzhou Railway College. Nowadays, Zhengzhou is a Chinese municipality of 20 million. Competition in everything is fierce. No one is special. My mother, a communication engineer and college teacher, has been my world, and her job—the extreme work of staying up all night to be on solo shifts in her early twenties, charged with the responsibility of watching over a whole roomful of machines. That was my model. I went to a Chinese style experimental school designed for training children to compete in International Mathematic Olympiad, where selected pupils were given advanced learning materials to see if they could figure out some ways to understand them. The materials back then were too advanced for me, and I think for many of us. But the sense of deficiency was what had driven most of us to success.
Marina DelVecchio, Ph.D.
Marina DelVecchio, Ph.D., is an award-winning author and college professor in English and Humanities. In addition to her online publications in MS Magazine, Huffington Post, The New Agenda, Vast Literary Press, and Lunch Ticket, her book publications include Dear Jane, The Professor’s Wife, The Virgin Chronicles, and Unsexed. She teaches through the lens of bibliotherapy, trauma-informed pedagogy, and critical theory, guiding her students to connect to literary heroes who write for power and self-assertion. She currently teaches How to Design your Life and How to Communicate in a Global Context at SFBU and has presented research on teaching and multimodal practices at South Atlantic Modern Language Association, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Durham Technical Community College, Queens University of Charlotte, Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, and NC Community College System Conference, among others.
Meet our Faculty
General Education Faculty Directory
Ana Mayen Torres
Ana Toreres has a Business Administration degree and have worked in the corporate world, however she decided to leave and teach math instead. She got into Stanford's Teacher Education Program and received a Masters in Math Education. Ana has been teaching math for 12 years now as well as coaching math educators to use groupwork strategies. She also specialize in curriculum design for public school districts and universities.
Andriana Mendoza
Andriana is a writer, educator, and writing specialist with over five years of experience, dedicated to the power of storytelling and creative expression. She holds a Bachelor’s in English, a minor in Education, and an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Davis, where she taught the course “Intro to Fiction” focused on personal narratives and writers of color. Currently teaching English at UC Berkeley, she also grades over 700 essays annually at the AP Literature and Composition Summit.