Three candidates to replace the retiring John Masterson as Allen Community College president will be in town in the coming days to meet the public.
The College Board of Trustees announced they have scheduled times to meet the three finalists, Dr. Carmen Simone at 3 p.m. Monday; Jon Marshall at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8; and Dr. Bruce Moses at 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13.
All three meet-and-greets will be in the Stadler Conference Room on the ACC Iola campus at 1801 N. Cottonwood St.
College trustees will meet privately with each of the three at the conclusion of the get-togethers.
SIMONE became president of Western Nebraska Community College in Scottsbluff in January 2020.
Before there, she was the founding vice president and dean at the University of South Dakota Community College for Sioux Falls.
Simone spent five five years as the President of Trinidad State Junior College, a multi-campus, Hispanic-serving institution in rural southern Colorado. She also trained as a peer reviewer foridad State, she served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. In addition to the main campus in Lewiston, the College supported an educational center on the campus of North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene.
Simone began her career at Casper College in Wyoming as a faculty member, while retaining a summer teaching appointment as an assistant professor with Colorado State University, where she steadily moved up the ranks from instructor, faculty senate chair, division chair and vice president for academic affairs.
Simone holds a degree in chemistry from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and a doctorate in chemistry form Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
MARSHALL should be a familiar face for Iolans.
He has served as vice president for academic affairs at Allen since 2008.
Before that, he served as Dean of Humanities and College Readiness at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minn., and as Dean of Communications and Mathematics at St. Louis Community College – Meramec.
In addition to these administrative roles, Jon worked as a tenured faculty member for St. Louis Community College teaching undergraduate courses and developmental education courses.
Marshall has served as president of the Kansas Council of Instructional Administrators and as co-chair of the System Council of Chief Academic Officers under the Kansas Board of Regents. He also serves as co-chair of the statewide General Education Working Group, tasked with designing and implementing a general education framework for the Kansas public higher education system.
Among his community involvements, Jon was a member of the board of directors for Allen County Hospital (2011-2013) and currently serves as chair of the board of directors of the REACH Healthcare Foundation in the greater Kansas City region.
