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February 12, 2021
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San Francisco Community College District Announces Search for New Chancellor
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Community College District has launched its search for the next chancellor of City College of San Francisco. The Board seeks an experienced leader with a strong professional reputation to provide unifying and participatory leadership for City College’s dynamic and diverse populations. The goal is to complete the search process and announce the new chancellor in April, with a start date of July 1, 2021.
The Board is committed to conducting an equitable, inclusive, and transparent national search to attract a strong pool of outstanding candidates for this exceptional opportunity. Assisting the Board in the chancellor search is HSV Consulting, Inc. led by Dr. Helen Benjamin, a longtime California community college educator and retired chancellor of the Contra Costa Community College District. For more information, confidential inquiries, or nominations, contact Dr. Benjamin at hbenjamin91@icloud.com or 510-701-1553. The search process, timeline, committee, application procedure, and updates are available on the Chancellor Search website.
About City College of San Francisco
For 85 years, City College of San Francisco has been the region’s premiere public, two-year community college. Providing San Franciscans with high quality credit and noncredit instruction and more than 250 degrees and certificates, City College is one of the first in the nation to offer free tuition.
Since its founding in 1935, City College has evolved into a multicultural, multi-campus community college that is one of the largest in the country. City College students are a highly diverse reflection of the many cultures, values, orientations, and ethnicities of the great “City by the Bay” and the surrounding region.
City College has official designations as a Minority Serving Institution, Hispanic-Serving Institution, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution and provides a safe space and assistance to undocumented members of the community through its City DREAM Center. For more about City College of San Francisco, please visit the College website.