RALEIGH - The State Board of Community Colleges plans to select the next president of the North Carolina Community College System during a special meeting next Thursday, December 6, 2007. The process to select the man from among the three final candidates will take place over two days.
The Personnel Committee of the State Board of Community Colleges meets in closed session on Wednesday, December 5 at 4:00 p.m. in the State Board room.
The entire State Board meets on Thursday, December 6 at 8:00 a.m. in the Board Room. The purpose of this meeting is the selection of a new System President. This is the only item on the agenda. The first part of the meeting will be in open session. The majority of the meeting will be in closed session, when the Board will interview the three candidates.
The vote to select the new president will likely occur between 1:45 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. in open session.
The three candidates 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
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