Southwest College President Quits for Job in New York
Carolyn G. Williams, president of Los Angeles Southwest College for the last four years, is leaving to be head of the much larger Bronx Community College in the City University of New York system.
Williams, 55, said she is due to move in late August from the 4,900-student college in South Los Angeles, the smallest in the nine-campus Los Angeles Community College District, to become president of the 8,500-student two-year college in the Bronx.
Los Angeles officials have yet to name an interim replacement for Williams, the college’s seventh president. She said she made the move for the challenges of the new job and to be closer to her husband in Detroit. Williams will also get a nearly $50,000-a-year raise to $144,700.
Southwest College, founded two years after the 1965 Watts riots, has the largest share of black students, 76%, of any Los Angeles district campus.
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