RELEASE DATE: November 16, 2007
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State Board approves three candidates for System President
RALEIGH - The State Board of Community Colleges today accepted the report from the Presidential Search Committee which recommended three candidates to succeed H. Martin Lancaster as System President. The candidates that will be interviewed on December 6, when a final decision is expected, are:
Kennon Briggs has served as the Vice President for Business and Finance at the North Carolina Community College System for the past ten years. He was a Senior Budget Analyst with the Office of State Budget and Management, the County Manager for Yadkin County, and the County Administrator for Jones County. He obtained both his B.A in Sociology and M.P.A in Urban Management from North Carolina State University.
Philip R. Day, Jr. has served as the Chancellor of City College of San Francisco for the past nine years. Prior to that he was president at Daytona Beach Community College, Cape Cod Community College in Massachusetts, and Dundalk Community College (Baltimore, MD). He obtained his M. Ed in Counselor Education from SUNY in Buffalo, his B.S. in Psychology (Portland, ME) and his Ed.D in Adult and Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Scott Ralls has served as President at Craven Community College for the past five years. Prior to that he was the Vice President for Economic and Workforce Development at the NC Community College System, Director of Economic Development at the System Office, and a Director at the North Carolina Department of Commerce. He obtained a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a Master of Arts, Industrial /Organizational Psychology, both from, the University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Industrial Relations and Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Three new presidents were introduced to the State Board this morning and each shared his or her vision for their college and the System as a whole.
“I join you in great pride for the North Carolina System,” said Dr. Betty Young, president at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. She said she had studied the NCCCS for the past ten years. “I bring new eyes and a new passion.” She said she would work to make A-B Tech an even more valuable resource to Buncombe and Watauga Counties.
Dr. Molly Parkhill was awarded the Staff Person of the Year award by the State Board one year ago. Today she addressed them as the new president of Blue Ridge Community College. “I look forward to leading with a 21st century vision,” she told the members.
Dr. Bill Ingram has been at Durham Technical Community College for the past 24 years and is presently the chief academic officer for the college. Today he told the Board that the Durham jail, which dominates the city’s skyline was built as a repository for the county’s failures. He said Durham Tech is the alternative and is committed to success.
Dr. Robert Keys, Rockingham Community College president, presented the final report from the Intercollegiate Athletics Task Force, which he chaired. He told the Board the group took no official position regarding the merits of an intercollegiate athletics program or whether a college should or should not engage in intercollegiate athletics. The Task Force agreed that the decision to engage in these programs was a local college decision that must be made, justified, and executed at the local level. The Task Force and the State Board should program guidance, assistance, and oversight to those colleges who have or who are considering having programs at their colleges. The Task Force does feel that there must be firm accountability measures and be operated at a level of impeccable integrity.
In other action the Board:
Ø Approved a resolution stating its position on proposed changes to rules in the NC Administrative Code regarding nursing program accreditation. The proposed changes would require accreditation for all nursing programs, which the Board supports. The Board does not support the provision that would require all nursing faculty to have a master’s degree. The concern is particularly the difficulty this would cause in recruiting part-time nursing faculty, who may have a baccalaureate, but do have tremendous nursing skills to impart to their students.
Ø Approved Dr. Van Wilson as the Associate Vice President of Academic and Student Services, effective January 1. Wilson is currently Vice President of Student Services and Chief Student Affairs Officer at Forsyth Technical Community College.
Ø Approved the allocation of $15 million in Equipment and Facilities grants to 19 community colleges, ranging from $900,000 to $311,372.
Ø Approved the allocation of 15 grants of $30,000 each to community colleges to support Minority Male Mentoring programs
Ø Amended language regarding the use of Student Activity Fees. Last month the Board grandfathered the use of fees to support counselor positions at colleges where those funds were previously used for that purpose. Today the Board placed a sunset for that permission to end when state or local funds are available to support the positions, but no later than August 1, 2010.
The Board adjourned to gather at the RBC Center for the Day of Recognition Awards luncheon where the IE Ready and other awards would be presented.
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