Communty Colleges Board Begins Chancellor Search
The Los Angeles Community College District board voted Wednesday to start looking for a new chancellor to replace James Heinselman, who is retiring in June 1999.
The board voted to appoint a 12-member search committee to select and interview candidates. The chancellor of the Los Angeles district--the country’s largest--earns $140,000 a year.
Rather than hiring a search firm, as was done in the past, the board put the district’s department of human resources in charge of the process.
In recent years, the district has had trouble keeping a chancellor. State community college Chancellor Tom Nussbaun has said that in educational circles the post is viewed as an “impossible job.”
Heinselman, former president of Harbor College, was tapped to fill the job when former Chancellor Bill Segura left the district last December. But when he took the job, Heinselman said he would serve only until mid-1999 and then retire.
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