{"id":405,"date":"2015-11-19T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/?p=405"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:17:40","slug":"palomar-college-governing-board-announces-decision-to-close-current-superintendentpresident-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/palomar-college-governing-board-announces-decision-to-close-current-superintendentpresident-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Palomar College Governing Board Announces Decision to Close Current Superintendent\/President Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN MARCOS &#8212; At a Special Board meeting on November 17, 2015 the Palomar Community College District Governing Board held closed session deliberations to consider their options for a new Superintendent\/President.\u00a0 At the conclusion of their deliberations the Board announced the following:\u00a0 &#8220;In closed session, the Board took an action item to close the search for Superintendent\/President of Palomar College.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In closing the search, the Board unanimously agreed to close the current search process and re-open with a new search in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The District&#8217;s Superintendent\/President position was vacated by Robert P. Deegan when he retired at the end of June 2015.\u00a0 Adrian Gonzales, originally hired by the District as the Assistant Superintendent\/Vice President for Student Services in 2013, has been serving as the Interim Superintendent\/President since Deegan&#8217;s departure.\u00a0 Gonzales will continue to serve as the Interim Superintendent\/President while the search process continues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>#\u00a0\u00a0 #\u00a0\u00a0 #<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT:<\/p>\n<p>Laura Gropen, Public Affairs Office, 760-744-1150, ext. 2152<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN MARCOS &#8212; At a Special Board meeting on November 17, 2015 the Palomar Community College District Governing Board held closed session deliberations to consider their options for a new Superintendent\/President.\u00a0 At the conclusion of their deliberations the Board announced the following:\u00a0 &#8220;In closed session, the Board took an action item to close the search&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/palomar-college-governing-board-announces-decision-to-close-current-superintendentpresident-search\/\">\u00a0Continue Reading:<span> Palomar College Governing Board Announces Decision to Close Current Superintendent\/President Search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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