Stark State College has narrowed the finalists for president to three, including two to whom it has ties, and will spend the next few weeks doing further review.Stark State Provost Dorey Diab and former Stark State Vice President Para Jones remain in the running, along with Quintin Bullock, president of Schenectady County Community College in Schenectady, N.Y.Stark State spokeswoman Irene Lewis Motts said trustees have decided to spend the next few weeks collecting additional facts on the finalists and likely will make a decision by the end of December.“It’s a long process,” Motts said.The tax-supported college conducted a national search with the aid of the Association of Community College Trustees in Washington, D.C., that yielded 35 candidates.Diab has been Stark State’s chief academic officer for two years. Jones left Stark State in 2009 as vice president for advancement, planning and college relations to become president of Spartanburg Community College in Spartanburg, S.C.Bullock has been president of the New York college for two years and before that was a provost at Tidewater Community College in Virginia. The new president will replace John O’Donnell, who left Stark State this summer after seven years for a similar job at the MassBay Community College in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Carol Biliczky can be reached at 330-996-3729 or cbiliczky@thebeaconjournal.com.