Fresno City College names interim president as national search continues to fill vacancy
The former president of Lassen Community College will lead Fresno City College as interim president while the area’s largest junior college searches for a permanent president.
Marlon Hall’s appointment as interim president in Fresno was announced Wednesday in a news release from the State Center Community College District.
“Dr. Marlon Hall is a Fresno resident with college president experience that will serve the college, its students and staff well during this transitionary time. His dedication to students is well known and his experience as a president will ensure that Fresno City College continues its upward trajectory,” Goldsmith said in the news release.
The president’s office was left vacant in December when Goldsmith was named chancellor of the Fresno-area community college district. In Wednesday’s statement, district officials said they were conducting a national search to find a permanent president but did not comment on any timetable for completing that search.
Hall in 2019 retired as president of Lassen Community College in Susanville after more than seven years.
“As one door closed with retirement, another opened at FCC, with this new opportunity I will emphasize that we leave no stone unturned in regard to our students reaching their educational and career goals,” Hall said in a news release Wednesday.
Hall is originally from Chicago and moved to California in 1976.
Hall earned six college degrees from West Hills College Coalinga, West Coast Christian College, California State University-Fresno, Fresno Pacific University, and the Fielding Graduate University.
Hall’s previous work experience includes a stint at Fresno Unified School district as a middle school teacher, high school English teacher, varsity basketball coach, adult school teacher, and acting Vice-Principal.
After his work at Fresno Unified, Hall went on to work in West Hill College, where he served as a community college faculty member, academic senate president, college basketball coach, instructional dean, and vice president of student services.