Board & Governance

UHS is firmly committed to transparency, accountability, and sound governance.

Our Board operates in accordance with established policies and bylaws that guide decision-making, ensure fiscal responsibility, and uphold our mission and values. Through clear governance structures and adherence to applicable laws and regulations, the Board works to serve students, families, and the broader community with integrity and trust.

Board Members

Dr. Xuanning Fu

Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs

xfu@mail.fresnostate.edu

  • Dr. Xuanning Fu serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at California State University, Fresno. He earned his doctorate from Brigham Young University in 1994. His research focuses on inter-racial marriage, education and social class, and the meaning of work, and he has published two books and more than 30 peer-reviewed articles.

    Dr. Fu has taught at four U.S. universities, including institutions in the UC and CSU systems, and has worked as a statistician and researcher in educational outreach. His recent research examines graduation rates and time to degree, reflecting his deep familiarity with California’s higher education system and pathways to student success.

Brent Woodward

Attorney at Law

brent@sw2law.com

  • Mr. Woodward is an attorney with Sagaser, Watkins & Wieland PC, the largest locally- owned employment law firm in the Central Valley. He is a Fresno native and graduate of Bullard High School. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and his law degree from San Joaquin College of Law. Mr. Woodward advises employers on labor law compliance and litigation prevention measures, and represents employers in pending litigation. He has extensive experience handling a wide variety of cases in the courtroom, including jury trials, bench trials, and administrative law proceedings. Mr. Woodward also has extensive experience handling appellate matters, including briefs in over 20 cases in the Court of Appeal, several of which involved oral argument.

    Mr. and Mrs. Woodward are the parents of seven children, two of which are graduates of University High (’18 and ’22).

President & Medical Director, Dizon Medicine, Volunteer Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Professor of Medicine, CHSU

Dr. Dominic Dizon

ddizon@communitymedical.org

  • Dr. Dizon is a proud graduate of the UC Davis School of Medicine. He has been practicing Internal Medicine for 30 years and has been working in Emergency Medicine departments in the Central Valley for more than 20 years. Dr. Dizon believes the best part of medical practice is the doctor-patient relationship. Each patient is different with their own set of ideals, fears, and cultural values. After a long career as a full-time faculty professor of medicine with UCSF Fresno, he retired and founded Dizon Medicine with his wife Nhuha, who’s a dentist. They both believe in giving back to the community and formed their practice values based on community service, teaching and quality improvement. They are also blessed with 8 beautiful children. Their whole family enjoys volunteering together, tennis, golf, making and playing music, and just simply hanging out.

President of California State University, Fresno

Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval

sjimenez@mail.fresnostate.edu

  • Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval immigrated to California as a child and grew up working on his family’s farm as a bilingual, bicultural student. He earned his Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of California, Irvine, and completed the School of Criticism and Theory summer program at Cornell University.

    A passionate advocate for the Arts and Humanities, he believes a comprehensive university education blends professional study with creativity, ethical reflection, and cultural understanding. His vision promotes a multifaceted curriculum—one that cultivates empathy in nursing, aesthetic awareness in engineering, and ethical insight in business.

    As a scholar, Jiménez-Sandoval studies poetic discourse, Mexican literature, and Lusophone cultural production. His work draws on deconstructionist and post-colonial theory to explore identity and cultural formation. Grounded in his own educational journey, he champions the transformative power of learning and the role of higher education in fostering an integrated, empowered society.

Professor & Chair, Department of Mathematics, CSUF

Dr. Rajee Amarasinghe

ramarasi@mail.fresnostate.edu

  • Rajee Amarasinghe received his Ph.D. in mathematics education from Indiana University, an M.S. in computer science from Purdue University and M.S. in mathematics from Purdue University. He earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and is a graduate from the Kotelawala Defense University, Sri Lanka. He was the 2004 faculty recipient of the Jan & Bud Richter Award for Excellence in Education for Liberal Studies Faculty at California State University, Fresno and the recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Indiana University.

    Currently he serves as a professor and the department chair of the Department of Mathematics at California State University, Fresno and Co-PI of the San Joaquin Valley Mathematics Project. During his time at Fresno State, Rajee has received over $13 million grant funding in collaboration with school districts and other departments at Fresno State. He has directed professional development workshops for teachers locally and internationally and directs the Summer Academy in STEM workshops to enhance mathematics education for children in the Central Valley. He has co-authored three books in mathematics and mathematics education.

Associate Professor for the Department of Educational Leadership

Dr. Nichole Walsh

  • Dr. Nichole Walsh comes to the UHS Board of Directors with 20+ years of experience in the field of education. Dr. Walsh’s experience includes teaching, leading, and consulting in elementary and secondary settings across the Central Valley and throughout CA. Currently, Dr. Walsh is an Associate Professor for the Department of Educational Leadership with a focus on K-12 educational administration and is a core faculty member in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership Graduate Group. She also serves as chair of the Fresno State University Policy and Planning Committee and as a Faculty Senator. She is proud to be a three-time Bulldog graduate as well as a former drum major of the Fresno State Marching Band.

nwalsh@mail.fresnostate.edu

Lori Hamada

Retired Educator

  • Lori’s passion is to inspire teachers and administrators to become the very best they can be, so that our students will have the opportunity to be the very best that they can be! Having served in education for 39 years as a math teacher, a district math coach, a site principal, educational consultant, and a County Office of Education team member, Lori Hamada is now officially retired. In retirement, she serves as a Board Member of University High School and as a member of the California Health Sciences University Institutional Review Board. She is providing leadership coaching for four local administrators through 21CSLA and teaches virtually for UMass Global. In addition, Lori is tutoring high need students in our community.

lori@lorihamada.com

Board Policies

The UHS Board of Directors governs the school through the policies and documents adopted to guide its operations. These resources provide transparency into how the school is structured, managed, and held accountable.