Santa Fe College s Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Edward T. Bonahue, will leave Gainesville after 23 years at the school to become the seventh president of Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, New York.
Bonahue, 55, is a native of Long Island, according to an online press release issued Monday by the New York school. He will remain at SF College a couple more weeks before heading north, said Jay Anderson, college spokesman.
Bonahue first started at what was then then Santa Fe Community College in 1997 as a professor of humanities and theater, Anderson said. After moving up the ranks, he became associate vice president for academic affairs in 2008 and provost and vice president for academic affairs the following year.