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The Fresno Bee
State Center College District trustees might choose new chancellor at board meeting
State Center Community College District trustees will soon consider appointing a new chancellor to succeed Carole Goldsmith, who retired in late September following nearly a year of public controversy. The finalists are down to Alan Davis and Christine Holt-McDonald. Davis has a chemistry background and spent most of his professional life in Canada, and Holt-McDonald was named SCCCD’s deputy chancellor in 2025, working directly under Goldsmith. The agenda for tomorrow’s board meeting notes that trustees will discuss appointing a new chancellor during closed session, followed by a conference with a labor negotiator. The open-session portion of the meeting is slated to involve trustees considering whether to enter an employment agreement with the new chancellor as well. The previous chancellor, Carole Goldsmith, was appointed in Nov. 2021. Four years later, hundreds of faculty members declared they had no confidence in her leadership. A few hours before this vote of no confidence, Goldsmith announced that she was retiring in Sept. 2026. The SCCCD later disputed the reported timing of her retirement announcement.