Local leader, chancellor to head Tri-Cities search committee

Kennewick School District Superintendent Paul Rosier and WSU Vancouver Chancellor Hal Dengerink have been named co-chairs of the committee charged with the search for a new chancellor for the WSU Tri­-Cities campus.

The announcement of their appointments was made Thursday in Kennewick by WSU President V. Lane Rawlins.

Rosier, who has been superintendent in Kennewick for 11 years, is a respected educator who has also served as president of the Washington Association of School Administrators. A former classroom teacher, he has worked on a Navajo reservation and is the author of a book about the Kennewick district¹s award-winning literacy campaign, “The 90 Percent Reading Goal.”

Dengerink has served as chancellor at WSU Vancouver since 1990. Previously, he has served as associate dean of the College of Sciences and Arts on the Pullman campus and as director of the university’s clinical psychology training program. He has been a member of the Washington State University faculty since 1969.

Other members of the search committee, which is also charged with developing a new position description for the Tri-­Cities chancellor’s post, are expected to be named in the next several weeks. Rawlins has said he hopes to name a permanent chancellor for the Tri-­Cities campus by early next year.

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