None of the candidates to be DVC’s next president made the final cut, and the recruitment process has stopped, an e-mail from the chancellor’s office said Monday.

DVC has been in the process of recruiting a president, and on March 15 the finalists were supposed to appear at a public forum.

 A 15-member committee screened the applications that were submitted, and interviewed 10 applicants last week, according to the e-mail.  

The committee concluded that there were not enough well-qualified candidates to be forwarded for final interviews, and Chancellor Helen Benjamin wrote that she has made the decision to stop the recruitment process at this point. Benjamin wrote that she is figuring out the next steps and will confer with the Governing Board at its meeting on March 23.