{"id":301176,"date":"2026-05-05T18:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/301176\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:31:33","slug":"bakersfield-college-names-3-finalists-in-presidential-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/301176\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield College names 3 finalists in presidential search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield College has narrowed its presidential search to 3 finalists.<\/p>\n<p>According to an email sent to campus staff Monday, the finalists are Dr. Phillip King, Dr. Daniel Lopez, and current Acting President Stacy Pfluger.<\/p>\n<p>Public forums are expected to take place Wednesday and Thursday at the Renegade Event Center at Bakersfield College. Each candidate will participate in a 45-minute forum.<\/p>\n<p>The forums are expected to be open to all faculty, administrators, staff, students, and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The new president is expected to start July 1.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Bakersfield College has narrowed its presidential search to 3 finalists. According to an email&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,760,127307,127308,155,153,152,127306,127309,127310,127311,127312],"class_list":["post-301176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-college","tag-bakersfield-college-president","tag-bakersfield-college-presidential-search","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bc-president-2026","tag-daniel-lopez","tag-phillip-king","tag-renegade-event-center","tag-stacy-pfluger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}