Selection of president on NIC board agenda
COEUR d’ALENE — The North Idaho College board of trustees is expected to choose the school’s new president tonight.
Trustees will meet at 6 in the Edminster Student Union Building, Lake Coeur d’Alene Room on NIC’s main campus. The meeting will also be streamed via Zoom.
The selection of a new president is an action item on the agenda.
Those who interviewed for the post are:
• Samuel “Todd” Brand
Brand has worked in higher education for more than two decades. He has spent the past three years as the chief academic officer at Ashland Community and Technical College in Ashland, Ky., supervising all academic programs on three campuses.
Prior to this, Brand served more than a decade as the division chair of fine arts and communication and as the arts and letters series director at Meridian Community College in Meridian, Miss. He also served as an assistant coach for three men's basketball coaches during his tenure with Meridian, which began in 2002.
• James Y. Taylor
Taylor is a senior associate vice president for Utah State University in Vernal, Utah, and the chief campus administrator for multiple campuses and educational centers in eastern Utah. He is an associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology.
Before his work at Utah State University, Taylor was a dean and vice president for Colorado Mountain College in the Rocky Mountains and oversaw campuses in the Arkansas River Valley. He has also been a campus president for a successful health care college with two campuses and a national online presence.
• Nick Swayne
Swayne, a University of Idaho graduate, is the executive director of 4-Virginia in Harrisonburg, Va., and the founder of a comprehensive academic innovation ecosystem — JMU X-Labs — at James Madison University. Prior to James Madison University, Swayne served in leadership roles around the country and the world in the U.S. Army. He has managed multi-million-dollar budgets and strategic operations in challenging circumstances.
He also serves as a faculty mentor in the Stanford University Innovation Fellows program and was a founding member of the Stanford Faculty Innovation Fellows program.
• Steve Condon
Condon has served as the chancellor at Carolina University in Winston-Salem, N.C., since 2018. Before this, he served as the president of John Wesley and Tennessee Wesleyan universities; vice president and dean of Letourneau, St. Thomas and Reinhardt universities; and dean of Huntingdon College.
He earned the rank of professor of education in 2001. He received his education and degrees from Boston State College, Florida State University, the University of Alabama, the University of Mississippi and Harvard University.
• Chad Crumbaker
Crumbaker is the provost and executive vice president for student affairs at West Virginia University-Parkersburg in Parkersburg, W.Va. He previously served as the chair of the business, accounting and public service division and as the coordinator of the legal studies program.
An active teacher while serving as provost, Crumbaker teaches and advises students in legal studies and in the first-year experience every year. He led the institution through an accreditation peer review visit as the chief academic officer and accreditation liaison officer.
Unfinished business on the agenda includes a resolution to reserve foregone taxes and an item regarding the board conduct policy.
The board will take public comment on agenda items from members of the public who are present in person. Comments are limited to two minutes per person. A sign-up sheet will be provided in the meeting room.
Before meeting in open session, trustees are scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. in executive session.
To attend the meeting via Zoom: https://nic.zoom.us/j/89662546590