This took place at a very short special board meeting held Thursday afternoon. MCC Board Chair Mary Miller signed the contract confirming Smith's agreement to serve as McHenry County College's next president. Dr. Vicky Smith, currently President of Neosha County Community College in eastern Kansas, was chosen from the three finalists presented to the Board and the public by Issacson, Miller, a professional search firm with offices in Massachusetts, Washington, DC and California.
She was asked her opinion of the campus as it is laid out physically and what she thought should happen to it. "I think that the college as an institution is an excellent college," says Dr. Smith. "I think we need to poll the board to set a direction for the future and then we can make internal decisions. We need an academic education plan and I really think we need a good facility management plan because it is bursting at the seams and we really need to physically rethink how the campus looks. That is just from a preliminary look at it."
After an eight-month presidential search process, the Board selected Smith as the College’s new president due to her extensive leadership experience, her can-do attitude and her ability to move higher education institutions forward.
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