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JCCC’s new president screening committee gets organized

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – At their meeting Sept. 21, the board of trustees announced the members of the New President Screening Committee. The committee is charged with producing a slate of qualified candidates for the position of college president.

Committee members and their constituent group are:

1. Elaine Perilla, Prairie Village, board of trustees, co-chair
2. Ben Hodge, Overland Park, board of trustees, co-chair
3. Phillip Newton, Overland Park, JCCC student
4. Mike Martin, Overland Park, professor, mathematics, Faculty Association
5. Carmaletta Williams, Overland Park, professor, English, faculty who are not members of the Faculty Association
6. Donna Helgeson, Overland Park, Math Resource Center assistant supervisor and adjunct professor, mathematics, adjunct faculty
7. Dana Grove, Overland Park, executive vice president, academic affairs, administration
8. John Hanysz, Overland Park, administrative assistant I, Student Life and Leadership, staff
9. Betty Uko, Overland Park, admissions/registration clerk, Admissions, Office Professionals League
10. Jill Gerlach, Overland Park, president, JCCC Foundation, Foundation board of directors
11. Sam Turner, Merriam, president and CEO, Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Johnson County businesses
12. Carol Lehman, Gardner, mayor of Gardner, mayors
13. Tom Trigg, Overland Park, superintendent of Blue Valley School District, K-12 school districts
14. Nick Jordan, Shawnee, Kansas state senator, Kansas senators
15. Lance Kinzer, Olathe, representative, Kansas House
16. Susan Langhauser, Olathe, chaplain, Overland Park Police Department, faith community

Also working with the screening committee will be Mark Ferguson, Lathrop& Gage, college counsel, and Wayne Brown, JCCC chief information officer, who will be the college’s liaison between the screening committee, the search firm and JCCC’s office of Human Resources.

The screening committee will hold a public forum from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 25 in Polsky Theatre. The public may meet with the screening committee at that time to discuss the search process and the qualities that should be included in the presidential profile.

Afterward, the committee will meet with the consultant, Jeff Hockaday, Hockaday-Hunter & Associates, Sanford, N.C., to discuss roles, responsibilities and timelines.

The board of trustees will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, in the Hugh W. Speer board room, 137 GEB, to discuss the presidential profile, including information gathered from the public forum and the screening committee members. The approved profile will then be posted.

Candidates will be asked to send their resumes to Hockaday, who will forward 25 of them to the committee within approximately 40 days. The screening committee will review the resumes and come up with a list of approximately 12 candidates. Those 12 candidates will be asked to provide videotapes of themselves answering several questions. Based on the resumes and the tapes, the committee will then reduce the pool to eight candidates, whose names will be forwarded to the board for consideration.

The board is then likely to invite the candidates to visit the campus and community for interviews and forums with constituencies and may even visit the candidates’ campuses.

The process will take at least through the end of the year.