THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022
MARYVILLE, MISSOURI
NWMISSOURINEWS.COM
VOL. 111, NO. 1
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Regents outline 7-step search process SIDNEY LOWRY Managing Editor | @sidney_lowry
In the months since former Northwest President John Jasinski departed from the University, the Northwest Board of Regents have outlined the process of looking for a new president. The Regents are working alongside Anthem Executive, a Texasbased firm, to extend a contract for the presidential search. Anthem Executive has been operating for over 30 years as a minority and veteran-owned firm consulting clients through nationwide executive searches. Not only does Anthem assist in seeking personnel for higher education, but also healthcare, non-profits, governments and other sectors. Based off feedback the Regents have heard from people wanting to have input on what the search firm should look for in a new president, Anthem Executive will be holding 50-minute sessions with different students, faculty, alumni and stakeholders Aug. 22 and Aug. 23 in the J.W. Jones Student Union Boardroom. Monday kicks off at 9 a.m. with a session for Northwest staff, then will move on to community members at 10 a.m. for their input. Northwest Alumni will have the chance to meet at 11:15 a.m. on Zoom to share the qualities they want to see in the next president. Later in the day Northwest stakeholders will meet at 1:30 p.m. The last meeting of the day will be at 2:45 p.m. for Northwest faculty. Tuesday there will be another meeting at 8:30 a.m. for Northwest faculty and another meeting at 9:45 a.m. for stakeholders. The Northwest Leadership will meet at 11 a.m. to give their input and then students will have an opportunity at 12:30 p.m. that day. If students aren’t able to attend the in-person feedback session, they will have another opportunity starting Friday to give feedback via a survey that can be found on the presidential search page on the Northwest website. After these sessions, the Board will approve the profile made by feedback at its Sept. 8 meeting. These qualities will be what Anthem Executive and the Presidential Search Committee will use when evaluating possible candidates. The Presidential Search Committee was approved at the Regents Aug. 4 meeting and consists of Regent Chair John Moore, Regent Roxanna Swaney, Regent Mel Tjeerdsma, Regent Jason Klindt. Peter Adam was chosen to represent Northwest faculty. Allison Atkinson will represent the Alumni Association, Tyrone Bates will represent the Black Alumni and Friends Chapter of the Alumni Association and Leisha Barry and Carl Hughes will represent the Northwest Foundation.
SIDNEY LOWRY MANAGING EDITOR
Northwest Interim President Clarence Green stands in his new workspace in the President’s Office. The Board of Regents annuonced Green was to take the place of former Northwest President John Jasinski April 20, and Green has been working as president since July 1.
FROM STUDENT TO PRESIDENT A glance into the first few weeks of
being Northwest’s interim president. SIDNEY LOWRY Managing Editor | @sidney_lowry
After 26 years of working at Northwest at the University Police Department, Clarence Green now finds himself trading in his uniform and leaving his office at the edge of campus for the seat as interim president. “I’ve never really chased, you know, this type of role at all,” Green said. “I never really visioned myself as being a president of a university.” Green started his journey at Northwest earning a bachelor’s degree and ended up working at UPD in 1996. Since then he has held interim vice president of diversity and inclusion and the interim vice president of human resources. Starting in 2019 he became the vice president of culture and oversees the Office of Human Resources and the Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness. The Board of Regents announced Green would be Northwest’s interim president April 20, just a few weeks after former Northwest President John Jasinski announced his departure from the University. “I was pretty blown away because it is a tremendous responsibility to help lead the organization,” Green said. “But I also felt, you know, a sense of honor. I was overwhelmed with kind of just all of the emotions running to me… All of those emotions were going through my mind, and perhaps still a lot of them are, you know, like, I still haven’t come down from the race that’s going on in my mind.” Since the announcement, Green said he has had an overwhelming amount of support from the campus and community with alumni reaching out to talk to him about the tremendous responsibility that comes with being interim president. “You know, there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t receive a text or call from some sort of alumnas talking to me about Northwest, and how proud they are that I’m in this position and how much they’re willing to help,” Green said. Just over a month and half of taking on this role, Green said he is still learning about the position and the responsibilities that come with it. Green said one of his goals is to build back trust with the campus and community. With the news of Jasinski leaving Northwest, members were divided and lost trust within the University leadership. Building trust is nothing new for Green. Senior Instructor Kenton Wilcox said he’s been doing that since he has been on campus by personally getting to know students. “Pre-COVID I was at a graduation and Dr. J gave Dr. Green a shout out and the students all cheered very enthusiastically, and the person sitting next to me was kind of ‘did a bunch of college students just enthusiastically cheer a chief of police?’” Wilcox said.
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“Someone had once told me ‘You know, what if it turns out better than you ever imagined?’and it makes me think, don’t set limits.” -CLARENCE GREEN
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