Tri-Cities Chancellor Search Committee to Hold Community Forums

TRI-CITIES, Wash. — The committee charged with the search for a new chancellor for the WSU Tri-Cities campus will hold a pair of community forums in Pasco and Kennewick Dec. 8 and 9.

Seeking input from the community as they craft a position description for the campus leader’s role, committee members are finalizing the formal search process. The public forums will seek broad community input on the preferred qualifications for chancellor candidates.

The first forum will be held Dec. 8 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Board Room of Columbia Basin College, located at 2600 North 20^th Ave., Pasco, across from the Red Lion.

The second forum will begin at 7:30 a.m. Dec. 9 in the Columbia Club Room of the Kennewick Garden Hilton, 701 N.Young St., adjacent to the Three Rivers Convention Center.

Driving directions to both locations can be found on the WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor Search Web site at https://www.wsu.edu/tri-city-chancellor/.

The committee’s co-chairs — Kennewick School District Superintendent Paul Rosier and WSU Vancouver Chancellor Hal Dengerink — with be joined by other members of the locally based search committee at the forums.

The committee is expected to begin seeking nominations of candidates for the chancellor’s position after the first of the year with a goal of naming a new chancellor by mid-2006.

WSU Tri-Cities currently enrolls about 1,200 students. The campus was established as part of the WSU system in 1989.