Jane Close Conoley is the president of California State University, Long Beach. She is the former interim Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside; she took on the chancellorial duties on December 31, 2012 following the resignation of former Chancellor Tim White. Prior to being selected as the Interim Chancellor for UC Riverside, Dr. Conoley was the Dean of the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara from January 2006 to December 30, 2012, a position which she publicly stated she intended to resume upon the completion of her tenure as interim Chancellor of UC Riverside. On January 29, 2014, it was announced Conoley would be the new president of California State University, Long Beach.