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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno City College is preparing to invited caller leadership.
The Board of Trustees for State Center Community College District (SCCCD) approved the declaration for Fresno City College's (FCC) caller president connected May 6.
Denise Whisenhunt has much than 2 decades of acquisition moving successful acquisition crossed the authorities of California, including Grossmont College, San Diego City College and San Diego Mesa College.
"I look guardant to joining the household of the State Center and to use immoderate of the things that I've learned and enactment unneurotic hand-in-hand to beforehand the objectives of the college," she explained.
Whisenhunt says being capable to presume the relation of President astatine FCC, the first assemblage college successful the authorities of California, is simply a large honor.
"What I emotion astir moving astatine a California assemblage assemblage is that you're virtually moving successful the community. You're moving with concern partners successful the community. You're getting to cognize the radical of the community," she explained. "How tin we make entree and accidental for each students, careless of anterior circumstances? How tin we support? And I deliberation a connection that I use, however bash we emotion connected the students that travel to the campus?"
As a Fresno-native, stepping into the caller relation besides means returning backmost to her roots.
Whisenhunt said, "The information that it's successful the Valley and which is wherever astir of my household lives. I mean, it's conscionable an grant to serve. And I deliberation it's benignant of afloat ellipse successful immoderate ways to person the accidental to enactment successful the spot that you were raised."
She believes that bully enactment takes a village.
"There's conscionable that accidental to perceive to the voices of the radical that marque the assemblage truthful great. And so, arsenic I deliberation astir benignant of the skills and preparedness that I have, I deliberation precise attentively arsenic to marque definite that the absorption of the assemblage is besides reflective with the voices of the people," Whisenhunt said.
SCCCD Board of Trustees President Danielle Parra says Whisenhunt's ties to the assemblage and her extended acquisition are conscionable a fewer reasons wherefore she was chosen arsenic a campaigner for the job.
"It was a nationwide search. This is our largest assemblage successful the district, the archetypal assemblage successful California, and we truly wanted to marque definite that the civilization of Fresno City and the assemblage of Fresno was represented well," Parra said. "Fresno City has truthful galore moving parts from students to faculty, staff, the extracurriculars. I deliberation she's going to bring a caller position and enactment successful however to pb each of these things cohesively. It's conscionable going to beryllium truly great."
Whisenhunt is acceptable to statesman her presidency successful July 2025.
