PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College Board of Trustees is expected to announce its selection for a new president of the 50-year-old college at 2 p.m. today at its regular meeting in the boardroom in “A” Building at 502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
The new president will replace Tom Keegan, who was hired to be Skagit Valley College’s new president after 10 years leading Peninsula College.
Board members have said they hoped to have a new president in place by the end of June.
Brinton Sprague, a retired community college leader now living in Port Ludlow, is serving as Peninsula’s interim president since Keegan’s departure.
The finalists, all affiliated with institutions outside of Washington state and all of whom hold doctorates, are:
■ Dorothy J. Duran, vice president for academic affairs at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
■ Cheri A. Jimeno, president of New Mexico State University, Alamogordo, in Alamogordo, N.M.
■ John R. (Ron) Langrell III, executive vice president of Riverland Community College in Austin, Minn.
■ Luke P. Robins, chancellor of Louisiana Delta Community College in Monroe, La.
Peninsula College trustees chosthe finalists from a field of 23 applicants on Feb. 21.
Each finalist visited the area and attended community forums in Port Angeles, Forks and Port Townsend March 5-9.
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Reporter Arwyn Rice can be reached at 360-417-3535 or at arwyn.rice@peninsula
dailynews.com.
