Students to be selected for search committee

Miko Calivo

Associate Editor

Three students will be chosen to serve on the Presidential Selection Committee to find a new president for Shoreline Community College (SCC).

SCC Student Body President Elliot Newlin will select the students based off of applications submitted. The three student body representatives will join 11 staff members (faculty, exempt staff, and classified staff) on the committee.

"The committee is put in place to narrow the candidate field for the Board of Trustees", Newlin said. The committee will examine the applications and narrow down the field. According to Newlin, the committee will hopefully be conducting interviews with 10 to 20 candidates.

After the interviews, the committee will chose semi finalists and send those names to the Board of Trustees to select the president.

"A consultant was hired two weeks ago to help with the search", Newlin said. The consultant will meet with the committee to discuss the criteria for the position.

Dr. Bob Barringer from Gold Hills Associates will serve as the consultants to the Board of Trustees and the Presidential Selection Committee. In a proposal submitted by Barringer to SCC, the work plan describes the search for a president as a "thorough search that will demand four to six months."

The proposal also includes a tentative calendar, developed with SCCs calendar and regularly scheduled Board meetings in mind. Detailed in the calendar are major benchmarks, including Feb. 6 - the suggested date to begin advertising the presidential search.

The cost to hire Barringer and his staff from Gold Hill is estimated to cost around $24,500, noted under 3.5 of the proposal. In the text of the cost proposal it states that "Gold Hill Associates guarantees its fee. If the Board is not happy with the final group of candidates, Gold Hill will begin again or accept no fee."

The Presidential Selection Committee is scheduled to hold its first meeting in January.