Roane State Community College

Roane State Presidential Search Advisory Committee Named;
First Meeting Scheduled July 9

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 27, 2012) — The presidential search advisory committee for a new president of Roane State Community College has been selected and will meet for the first time Monday, July 9.

The meeting will begin at 12:45 p.m. EDT in the Dunbar Building Faculty Dining Room on the college’s main campus in Harriman.

Roane State’s current president, Gary Goff, announced in March his plan to retire at the end of October after leading the college for seven years. The new president is expected to be named this fall.

The search committee’s charge is to identify three to five finalists for the position who will visit the campus for interviews. Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor John Morgan will then make a final selection for submission to the TBR for approval.

The committee members are as follows:

Regent Danni Varlan, Chair
TBR BOARD MEMBER
Knoxville, TN

Regent Tom Griscom
TBR BOARD MEMBER
Chattanooga, TN 

Regent Howard Roddy
TBR BOARD MEMBER
Hixson, TN 

Ms. Pat Wurth
FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE
Faculty Senate President
Associate Professor of Geographic Information Systems and Geology
Roane State Community College
Oak Ridge Branch Campus
Oak Ridge, TN

Dr. George Meghabghab
FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE
Faculty Senate Vice President
Professor of Computer Science
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN 

Dr. Don Miller
FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN

Ms. Rebecca Staton
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
Executive Board Chair
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN

Mr. Glen Allen Hickman
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN 

Ms. Diane Mount
SUPPORT STAFF REPRESENTATIVE
Support Staff Council President
Accounts Payable Supervisor
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN

Ms. Beverly Bonner
ADMINISTRATIVE REPRESENTATIVE
Dean of Students
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN

Ms. Joy Liggett Ingram
ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE
Associate Professor of History
Pellissippi State Community College
Knoxville, TN 

Mr. Barry A. Stephenson
BUSINESS COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE 
Chair of East Tennessee Economic Council 
President/CEO
Materials and Chemistry Laboratory, Inc.  (MCLinc).
Oak Ridge, TN 

Mr. David Coffey
BUSINESS COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVE
Former State Representative and Businessman
Lenoir City, TN 

Mr. Jim Henry
COMMUNITY AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVE
Commissioner of Intellectual Disabilities and
President/CEO of Omni Visions, Inc.
Former State Representative
Kingston, TN

Mayor Chris Mason
COMMUNITY AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVE
Mayor of Harriman
Harriman, TN 

Dr. Jim Roberto
COMMUNITY AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVE
Associate Laboratory Director
Science & Technology Partnerships Directorate
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN 

The July 9 meeting of the Search Advisory Committee will be open to the press and the public as observers. Anyone with a disability who wishes to participate should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 to request services needed to facilitate attendance. Contact may be made in person, by writing, by e-mail, by telephone or otherwise and should be received no later than 5:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 5. More information on the presidential search process, including the criteria for selection, can be found at www.tbr.edu under the “Quick Links” section.

The TBR is the nation’s sixth largest higher education system, governing 46 post-secondary educational institutions.  The TBR system includes six universities, 13 two-year colleges (including Roane State) and 27 technology centers, providing programs in 90 of Tennessee’s 95 counties to more than 200,000 students.