Shelton State President Chris Cox To Resign For New Job With ACCS

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Shelton State Community College President Chris Cox will resign his position this fall to take a new job with the Alabama Community College System, Patch confirmed on Friday.

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The news comes just over a year since Cox was named interim president after serving as special assistant to the ACCS chancellor.

ACCS Director of Communications & Marketing Ebony Horton Bradley told Patch Cox has accepted a position with the ACCS as systemwide Vice Chancellor of Instruction, Research and Development.

She also said Cox will remain president of Shelton State through mid-September, with an official presidential search set to begin Tuesday, June 20.

Cox has over 30 years of K-12 and higher education administration experience and previously served as the college’s interim president and special assistant to the chancellor at the ACCS.

What's more, Cox has served as an interim president at Northwest-Shoals Community College in Muscle Shoals, Bevill State Community College in Jasper, and Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in Andalusia.

Cox — the college's fourth president in three years — was initially hired to replace former president Brad Newman in an interim capacity after he was removed from his position in February 2022 after just 10 months on the job.

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