The heat is being turned up on the State Center Community College District Board of Trustees, who are feeling pressure to dismiss Chancellor Carole Goldsmith immediately because of last month’s no-confidence vote by 250 faculty members.

However, trustees faced pressure from the other side Tuesday evening at a hastily scheduled special meeting that included agenda item 3.03, “Public Employee Performance Evaluation — Chancellor; Discussion of Chancellor Goals Until Retirement.”

Prior to their two-hour closed session, the trustees heard from a cavalcade of local community leaders representing West Fresno, the Maddy Institute, local nonprofits, the business community, and the Hispanic, Black, the LGBTQ+ communities, all in unanimous agreement that the trustees need to gird their loins and re

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