Sunday, May 16, 2010

Dr. Margaret Skold Wants To Meet MCC Community Members Thursday

Dr. Margaret "Marge" M Skold is looking forward to meeting McHenry County College community members on Thursday, May 20 from 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. in MCC Room B 166-167 at 8900 US Highway 14, Crystal Lake. She is the third finalist candidate for the MCC presidency.

Dr. Skold has been vice president of Academic Affairs and the chief academic officer of William Rainey Harper College (Harper) since 2002. In her current role, Dr. Skold oversees academic initiatives working with other 220 full-time faculty, 100 staff and 650 part-time and adjunct personnel and manages annual educational and auxiliary budgets of over $35 million. From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Skold was the vice president of Instruction at Centralia College in Centralia, Washington. Prior to her executive experience, Dr. Skold worked at Hawkeye Community College in Iowa. She started as an adjunct English teacher. She quickly moved to full-time communications teaching in the Business and Health program areas while she worked with the administration to create support programs for students who were under-prepared for college study. She was soon promoted to department administrator and campus manager of the urban campus where she managed an alternative high school, adult literacy program, and continuing education courses in computing and electronic controllers, contract training and home health aide providers. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

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