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TCC gains chancellor, loses board member

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Tarrant County College recently finished construction on its new Center of Excellence for Energy Technology. Students can gather outside the building in courtyards shaded by solar energy arrays that help power the building.
Tarrant County College recently finished construction on its new Center of Excellence for Energy Technology. Students can gather outside the building in courtyards shaded by solar energy arrays that help power the building. Benjamin Oliver Hicks Special to the Star-Telegram

Tarrant County College has secured a new chancellor but lost a Board of Trustees member.

The TCC Board of Trustees named Eugene Giovannini as the new chancellor Thursday after a nationwide search.

The former chancellor, Erma Johnson Hadley, died in October 2015.

The day before Giovannini was approved, longtime Board of Trustees member Kristin Vandergriff resigned because “she no longer lives within District 3,” a TCC news statement says.

The timing is unfortunate for her departure, but with Giovannini at the helm, the board should be able to quickly find a replacement.

Plans for replacing Vandergriff will be discussed at the next governance committee meeting.

Giovannini will make a fine chancellor for TCC with his background as founding president of Maricopa Corporate College in Arizona.

He will take office in late August, says a TCC news release.

We are intrigued to see what Giovannini has planned for TCC, and who will replace Vandergriff on the board.

This story was originally published July 14, 2016 at 5:46 PM with the headline "TCC gains chancellor, loses board member."

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