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# New SMC president named
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smc-president-named/
- Published: 2005-12-31T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T08:28:07.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

It was announced in December that Dr. Chui L. Tsang will become the new president of Santa Monica College at the beginning of 2006\. Tsang, who currently serves as president for San José City College, was one of three finalists referred from an SMC search committee and chosen by the board of trustees after a public forum held in November, during which the candidates answered a slew of questions before students, school employees and community members regarding their administrative styles.

The 54-year-old Tsang, a first-generation Californian who was born and raised in China, is expected to take the reins at SMC on Feb. 27\. He will earn an annual salary of $175,000.

Tsang will succeed Dr. Piedad Robertson, who left the college in January to become president of the Denver-based Education Commission of the States.

Dr. Tsang came to the United States via Hong Kong in 1971 at the age of 19\. He received his start in education as a student at Contra Costa Community College in San Pablo. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, Tsang earned his doctorate in linguistics at Stanford University, where he taught for several years.

He became president of San José City College, which has an enrollment of more than 10,000 students, back in 1997, remaining at the post for the past nine years.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 31, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/123105.pdf?ref=smdp.com)