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APTOS — The Cabrillo College Governing Board on Monday announced that Matthew Wetstein will be the college’s next president.
The college held a community forum on Nov. 29 in which college officials and community members interviewed four candidates hoping to fill the seat when President Laurel Jones retires at the end of the year.
The board met in closed session Monday before the 6 p.m. public meeting in the Sesnon House to discuss the presidency.
In coming to Cabrillo, Wetstein leaves a position as Assistant Superintendent/Vice President of Instruction and Planning at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton.
Before that, he served as Interim Dean of the San Joaquin Delta College Agriculture, Science and Math Division. He was also Dean of Planning, Research and Institutional Effectiveness for five years.
Wetstein has served as the President of the Research and Planning Group of the California Community Colleges since 2016.
He began his academic career as a political science instructor.
Wetstein holds a Ph.D. in political science and an M.A. in political science from Northern Illinois University, and he holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of St. Francis, in Joliet, Ill.
