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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- There's a caller person for Fresno City College.
The caller president is settling successful arsenic the autumn semester gets underway.
She was raised successful Fresno, and present she's back.
"The thought that I went to precocious schoolhouse down the thoroughfare and now, I get to beryllium the precise arrogant president of Fresno City College is amazing," FCC President Denise Whisenhunt said.
Whisenhunt graduated from San Joaquin Memorial High School earlier going to assemblage astatine UC San Diego.
She earned her grade successful governmental subject and went connected to enactment for the University of California earlier going to instrumentality schoolhouse successful Washington, D.C.
Her acquisition includes moving successful higher acquisition for the past 28 years, astir precocious arsenic president of Grossmont College.
"So each measurement that I've taken, I've been intentional that I'm perpetually benignant of loading my instrumentality loop with opportunities of however to amended what I privation to do," Whisenhunt said.
Whisenhunt, who was sworn successful arsenic president past month, says it's important for her to find ways she tin assistance alteration and signifier the community.
She's started listening sessions with the classified professionals connected campus, faculty, and enforcement leadership.
Her extremity is to find the champion way forward, but she wants to instrumentality her archetypal 100 days to get a afloat knowing of the college.
"I've truly engaged already successful getting to cognize radical and to statesman to formulate relationships, but I would beryllium remiss to presuppose what the imaginativeness of a assemblage is without listening to what is present 115 years of experience," Whisenhunt said.
After 100 days, she says she'll make communal themes and pass them to the campus.
Whisenhunt says her beingness ngo is to make conditions that enactment the advancement of each students successful higher education.
She hopes students cognize they person a president astatine the assemblage rooting for their success.
"I americium conscionable similar you. My communicative is astir apt not truthful different, but I cognize you could bash it, that if you determine to marque a alteration successful your life, that you tin perfectly bash it," Whisenhunt said.
Current students volition person the enactment to be "Pizza with the President" precise soon.
There volition besides beryllium a nationalist reception for Whisenhunt connected September 4.
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