By Khalida Sarwari
The Foothill-De Anza Community College District has appointed Christina Espinosa-Pieb as interim president of De Anza College.
The district, in a news release this week, said Espinosa-Pieb will replace Brian Murphy, who led the school for 14 years before announcing his retirement in April because of health issues.
Espinosa-Pieb will serve as the college’s interim president though December 2019, at which point the district will launch a nationwide search to fill the position permanently.
The veteran administrator’s roots at De Anza go back 40 years, when she started her climb up the ranks as a student employee to vice president of instruction, a position she’s held since 2008.
In that role, Espinosa-Pieb has led the college’s nine instructional divisions, which educate about 20,000 students each fall. She is responsible for hiring and evaluating faculty and overseeing an $80 million budget. As De Anza’s vice president of instruction, Espinosa-Pieb also represented the college in negotiations with the faculty association and led the college’s enrollment management efforts.
She and her husband are longtime residents of Cupertino where she is a member of the Rotary Club. They have two adult children.
In a statement, Espinosa-Pieb said it was “a true privilege to serve the college I myself attended as a first-generation student, and that both of my children transferred from as well.”
Pending approval by the district’s board of trustees, Espinosa-Pieb will begin her first day on the job July 1.
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