State Center Community College District Chancellor Carole Goldsmith announced she will be retiring by September 2026.

The leader who oversaw some of the district’s biggest expansion and fundraising efforts said she would step down at the start of the 2026-27 school year. She made the announcement Thursday in the district’s Fresno downtown office.

She said she leaves at a time the system has one of its highest enrollment rates and transfer rates, and is in sound financial condition. Clovis Community College again received a distinction for high transfer rates, Fresno City College’s 20,000-student-plus enrollment levels mark it for additional money, and the Reedley and Madera colleges’ rural students are “shattering graduation rates.”

“I know that I leave this district in good hands. I’m

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