State Technical College President Don Claycomb will serve on the advisory committee helping the Board of Regents search for the school's next president.
Claycomb, who has headed the Linn-based school since 1993, is retiring June 30.
The 12-member advisory committee was announced Tuesday in a news release that also reported the Regents' hiring of Gold Hill Associates, Jackson, Mississippi, as the firm helping manage the presidential search.
Gold Hill, which specializes in two-year college placements, made its presentation Aug. 28 to the Regents.
The Pauly Group of Springfield, Illinois, made its presentation June 26, and a third firm, R.H. Perry and Associates, originally expressed an interest in the consulting job but didn't make a formal presentation.
Regents President John Klebba and board members Scott Christianson and Toni Schwartz will serve on the advisory committee.
The board appointed the other committee members to represent specific groups, including:
• Faculty & Academic Affairs - Becky Dunn, a faculty member and State Tech's legislative liaison, and Steve Doede, Industry Outreach.
• Supervisory - Chief Financial Officer Jenny Jacobs and Library Services Director Fran Stumpf.
• Support - Nadine Anderson, information technology specialist.
• Foundation & Alumni - Clarke Thomas, Foundation Board chairman and graduate of State Tech's Automotive Technology and Aviation Maintenance programs.
• Community - Jerry Voss, editor of the Linn Unterrified Democrat newspaper and a former president of the state Coordinating Board for Higher Education. The Regents said another community member may be appointed.
• Student Government Association - President John Atkinson.
Sue Gove, who is Claycomb's and the Regents' secretary, also will serve as the advisory committee's secretary.
A Gold Hill Associates representative will meet with various groups on State Tech's campus in Linn, gathering information to help the Search Advisory Committee develop "a prospectus for use in advertising the job."
Gold Hill will receive the applications and help the Search Advisory Committee narrow the field of applicants to a small group to be interviewed away from Linn.
That group then would be narrowed to finalists, whose names will become public for the first time and be interviewed on campus.
Following the campus visits, the Presidential Search Advisory Committee will be asked to provide information and recommendations to the Regents for the final hiring decision.
With Claycomb retiring at the end of June, the "goal is to have the new president in place July 1, 2016," the Regents said in Tuesday's news release.