Week in Review : EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN THE NEWS : College Officials Were Coming and Going

College chiefs were coming, going and settling in around Orange County last week.

Fred Garcia, acting president of Golden West College for the past 11 months, was named permanent head of the Huntington Beach college on Wednesday.

A native of Texas, Garcia, 55, becomes Golden West’s third president. He has spent the last 28 years in teaching and administrative jobs in Orange County.

“Fred was a major factor in the stabilization of Golden West College,” said David A. Brownell, chancellor of the Coast Community College District. “I am delighted that he will continue as permanent president.”

At Cal State Fullerton, university President Jewell Plummer Cobb was nowhere to be found when 70 angry students marched to her office Wednesday to protest the taping on campus of a racist cable television series, “Race and Reason,” by former Ku Klux Klan leader Thomas Metzger.

In Cobb’s absence, the students presented a petition signed by more than a thousand students to Charles W. Buck, associate vice president for student services.

Buck told them that Cobb, who is black, was in Sacramento on university business.

Cobb has said that she deplored Metzger’s message but that the First Amendment guarantees his right to use the school’s “public access” facilities for cable programming.

In the North Orange County Community College District, Chancellor James S. Kellerman, now into his third month on the job, said morale has improved since he took over.

Kellerman, 52, replaced the controversial Leadie Clark, the first black female chancellor of a community college district in California, who was ousted last summer by the board of trustees. Clark, citing “public humiliation,” filed a $5-million damage suit, which is pending in federal court.