CANTON – SUNY Canton officials are forming a new committee to search for a president of the college.

A presidential search for SUNY Canton was approved in June and a search committee was formed, but since then the guidelines were updated, according to a memo to staff at the college.

The unspecified changes have forced the formation of a new search committee, the memo said.

College Council President Ron O’Neill, chair of the presidential search effort, has already selected the non-faculty members, and six faculty members of the committee will be elected at the first faculty assembly meeting, according to the announcement.

The whole process is expected to run through the spring 2014 semester.

Longtime SUNY Canton President Joseph Kennedy stepped down in September 2012. Carli Schiffner was installed as interim president, but she left the job earlier this year to be vice president of instruction at Wenatchee Valley College in Wenatchee, Wash.

Dr. Joseph C. Hoffman, former SUNY Maritime College provost and vice president for academic affairs, began as acting president of the college June 1.

As acting president, Hoffman is eligible to be considered as a candidate for a full presidential appointment, but Lenore VanderZee from the president’s office says that, after only two months on the job, he has not yet decided if he will put his name forward, because “he wants to see if he will be a good fit for the college and the college will be a good fit for him.”