10 months ago
33
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno City College students and unit were backmost connected field Monday for the archetypal time of the autumn semester.
FCC is connected the hunt for a caller president arsenic erstwhile president, Doctor Robert Pimental, resigned.
In the meantime, Clovis Community College President Dr. Kim Armstrong volition temporarily enactment arsenic Fresno City College's Interim President.
"It is breathtaking to person the accidental to conscionable service my sister's schoolhouse successful this capacity, arsenic you tin spot here, hustling and bustling connected their archetypal day," Dr. Armstrong said.
Armstrong became CCC's President successful January of 2023.
Dr. Monica Chahal volition service arsenic the Clovis Community College Interim President portion Armstrong is away.
"I'll beryllium present to marque definite that they enactment connected the aforesaid unthinkable forward-going trajectory that they've already started connected truthful that erstwhile the caller president comes in, we're inactive successful that mindset of moving forward," Armstrong said.
On Monday, the assemblage welcomed astir 22,000 students and they expect that fig to grow.
"We've exceeded our pre-pandemic numbers, arsenic we person crossed the full district," Armstrong said.
This semester brought caller additions to the field -the caller Childhood Development gathering has opened, incoming students had the caller summation of the Welcome Center, and Biz-Bikes are present connected campus.
"That's the concern with the Black Chamber of Commerce," Armstrong said.
Students tin rent and instrumentality a motorcycle astatine the hubs located astir campus, the Tower District, and Downtown Fresno.
"Transportation is an contented due to the fact that we are conscionable immense successful the parking tons are full," Armstrong said.
FCC is doing an assertive nationalist hunt for their caller president. The process could instrumentality up to 8 months.
