Two have already been turned down this year by other Community Colleges for top job as president
Who will be selected to run the County’s $80 million dollar Community College? The search committee has turned in three names and then ended the search. The three are Dr. Michael Calvert, Dr. Linda Elliott-Nelson, and Dr. Lisa B. Rhine. The Governing Board will apparently select one of them as the new president of the Community College on December 5.
Dr. Calvert has been president of Pratt Community College in Kansas for a little over five years. Although a finalist, he was recently rejected for president of Kansas City Kansas Community College (March 2018) and Lamar State College-Orange (LSCO) College in Texas (May 2018).
Dr. Rhine is Provost and Chief Operating officer at the Chesapeake Campus of Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Virginia. She was recently rejected among the finalists for president of Glendale Community College (February 2018). In February 13, 2018 he was one of four candidates for the president of Chesapeake College in Maryland but was rejected. Also, in spring 2018 she was one of three finalists for the presidency at Western Nevada College, Carson City, Nevada where she was rejected. She is among four finalists as of November 4, 2018 for president of Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, CA. That decision is apparently still pending.
Unlike Calvert and Rhine, Dr. Elliott-Nelson does not appear to have been recently riding the community college “hire-me” presidential search circuit. She is currently the Vice President for Learning Services at Arizona Western College. She began working for Arizona Western College in 1997 as a faculty Chair in the Division of Modern Languages. In 2006, she became the Dean of Instruction and in 2015, she became the Vice President of Learning Services at Arizona Western.
You may read the College’s press release to the newspapers about the three candidates in the online Camp Verde Bugle by clicking here.