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September 16, 2015
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September 16, 2015
The Louisiana Community and Technical College System Board of Supervisors announced they are beginning the search for a permanent chancellor for Fletcher Technical Community College.
The top-job has been filled in the interim by SCLTC Regional Director Earl Meador since May 2014. Meador had replaced Travis Lavigne, Jr., who resigned from the position after serving as chancellor since 2003 and a 40-year-long career with the college, which started on a seven-acre site at St. Charles Street in Houma in 1951, and has since blossomed into a multi-campus facility and that trains students throughout the Houma-Thibodaux area.
The search for a new chancellor will be managed by the Association of Community College Trustees, a national non-profit organization of over 1,200 community, technical and junior colleges. According to the ACCT website, acctsearches.org, the organization has “completed over 400 CEO Executive Searches ranging from campus presidents to state system presidents” in over 35 years.
There is a fee for the service provided by ACCT. According to their website, the search is about a five month process that begins with research into what the college community is looking for in a chancellor.
LCTCS Director Monty Sullivan will visit Fletcher’s campus “in the coming days” with an ACCT search consultant to conduct focus groups with faculty, students and staff to find out what qualities they want in a chancellor, said LCTCS spokesman Quintin Taylor.
“None of that is done in a vacuum,” Taylor said. “That’s all done with a
collaborative, sort of, all-hands-on-deck approach with community influence, faculty and staff and students, of course.”
Their responses will be used to develop draft profiles of ideal candidates, but the LCTCS Board of Supervisors and search committee must approve the final profile before the position is advertised.
Names of members of the search committee and a tentative timeline for the search will be released at a later date, Taylor said in a press release.
Meador could not comment for this story because he is eligible to apply for the permanent chancellor position, said Jaclyn Gehbauer, spokeswoman for Fletcher Technical Community College.
“This process is going to be comprehensive. We’re going to cast a large net and the goal is to find the absolute best person to lead the college moving forward,” Taylor said.
The Louisiana Community and Technical College System Board of Supervisors is looking for a new chancellor for Fletcher Technical Community College after Travis Lavigne Jr. resigned.
