CCC board to hold special meetings

CLOVIS — The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees has two special meetings this week, and hopes to emerge from the second with a choice for its next president.

The trustees will meet at 8 a.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Wednesday at CCC Room 512. The agendas only have executive sessions to discuss personnel matters.

The trustees and the college spent the week of Sept. 30 interviewing five finalists, which was whittled down from a field of 62 applicants:

• Michael Fitzpatrick, vice president of instruction at Pratt Community College in Kansas

• Charles Nwankwo, vice president of technology and business partnerships for Chandler-Gilbert Community College and Maricopa Community College in Arizona.

• Robert Riza, president of Clarendon College in Texas

• Richard Sax, provost and president for academic affairs at the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College in Ohio

• Gregory South, interim vice president of academic affairs at Porterville College in California

The next president is expected to take over Jan. 1. Robin Kuykendall has been interim president since late June, when Becky Rowley departed CCC to take the president’s position at Santa Fe Community College.