Butte College
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Butte College Announces Finalists for Superintendent/President

Butte-Glenn Community College District (BGCCD) President of the Board of Trustees, Julie Boss, has announced two finalists will move forward in the Superintendent/President search process after a national search.

Below are candidate biographies and hybrid Zoom public forum information for faculty, staff, administration, and community members to attend in-person or via Zoom. Each candidate has a separate Zoom webinar link.

Finalist Forums
Butte College Black Box Theater
Monday, March 28, 2022
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Campus community feedback can be provided after each of the individual candidate forums. 

Candidate & Forum Information

Ms. Virginia Guleff

Full Biography
1:30 p.m.– 2:20 p.m.
Webinar Link 
Zoom ID: 973-1984-1819

Virginia Guleff brings 36 years of experience in the California Community College system to the presidency at Butte College. Virginia has a demonstrated commitment to serving rural communities, with 15 years in leadership roles at Northern California rural colleges. Virginia is an experienced collaborator; in her current position as Vice President of Instruction, she has led Butte College in its recent college-wide effort to successfully reaffirm its accreditation as well as in its efforts to transition to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also supported college program connectivity with community members and local business and industries.  A seasoned facilitator, Virginia has been an invited speaker at numerous statewide conferences and has led strategic planning both locally and at the state-level. Virginia has a long-standing commitment to serving diverse student populations; Butte College is the fourth Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) at which Virginia has held a leadership role. Virginia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics from San Jose State University and a Masters of Arts in Linguistics from San Diego State University. She lives locally with her family.

Ms. Kim Lopez

Full Biography
2:30 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Webinar Link
Zoom ID: 960-2605-6096

Kim Lopez is a second generation Mexican-American who has served as an educational leader in the California Community Colleges for over 25 years.  She attributes her passion for equity-centered education to her paternal grandparents who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900’s from the Chihuahua region of Mexico. As a graduate student, Kim successfully wrote a Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program (TRIO) grant and was hired to be the first director. Since then, she continued to work with low-income and first-generation college students while serving for three years as the Assistant Dean of Students at the University of California, San Diego and for two years as the Upward Bound (TRIO) director at the College of Micronesia on the island of Kosrae. While serving for thirteen years at the College of the Siskiyous (COS) as the EOPS/CARE, CalWORKs and TRIO counselor and director, Kim developed her skills in college teaching, as a faculty leader and in student services administration. Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from UC Santa Barbara and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Education from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Kim is married, has two adult daughters and although she has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for 11 years, her home is in Mount Shasta, California.

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