Please join us at Clovis Community College Herndon Campus - Clovis, California for our September Luncheon Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Carole Goldsmith, President of Fresno City College.

*Guests and Non-Members Welcome*

EVENT GIVEAWAY:

Provided by our FCWCC Member- Christy Nottingham

AGENDA:

11:30am – 12:00pm: Check-in, Relationship Building, Lunch Served

12:00pm - 1:00pm: Program with Guest Speaker

MENU (Lunch optional):

Members: Lunch – $15.00

Members: No Lunch – $0.00

Non-Members: Lunch – $20.00

Non-Members: No Lunch – $5.00

(All payments must be paid online. If an error occurs when paying please clear your cookies and manually type in credit card information)

Chinese Chicken Salad, Italian Chopped Salad, Dessert, 1 Beverage and a Roll.

Please register online by Thursday, September 23rd. 

No-shows or cancellations made after that date will still be responsible for the lunch payment. 

If you have any questions? Please contact us at info@fcwcc.org.

SPEAKER BIO:

Dr. Carole Goldsmith has been recognized as an expert on workforce development, community collaboration, and career technical education. She believes that great cities include high performing education systems and understands the importance of education in providing opportunity to change lives and communities.

Dr. Goldsmith has spent over 20 years in a variety of educational leadership roles, currently as President of Fresno City College. Before taking the helm at FCC in August 2016, she served as President of West Hills College Coalinga.  Other positions she has held include Vice Chancellor of Educational Services and Workforce Development; a K-12 teacher at a small rural school; and as an administrator at an adult school and at a private post-secondary college. She still visits the classroom as an adjunct professor.

In 2011, she led the Central California Community Colleges Committed to Change Consortium (C6) $19.9 million Federal TAACCCT grant educational reform efforts that put hundreds of Valley residents back to work.

Dr. Goldsmith has served on a number of state and local boards. She served on the Board of Governors Task Force on Workforce, Job Creation and a Strong Economy and was appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and reappointed by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. to serve on the Board of Directors of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley.

Dr. Goldsmith is the recipient of the Mariann Loniello Award from the California Community College Association of Community and Continuing Education acknowledging her work in economic development; was recognized by CSU alumni association Working for California initiative for her advancement of workforce education; and has received outstanding alumna recognition from  Fresno State.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from Fresno State, a master’s degree from National University and a Doctorate of Education from the Joint Doctorate program offered by Fresno State and and University of California, Davis.

Thank you for your understanding to follow COVID-19 safety guidelines at Clovis Community College where we will be meeting for our luncheons.
The college is adhering to the California Department of Public Health and Center for Disease Control recommendations and requires facial coverings while indoors at all Clovis Community College buildings for those that are vaccinated and not vaccinated. While eating during our luncheons, it is ok to remove face coverings.