Community College public data provided only a trickle of information regarding her accomplishments; Blog provides a flood of data 

Dr. Lisa Rhine

The Blog has obtained comprehensive information on Lisa B. Rhine, one of the three candidates seeking the position of President of Yavapai Community College.  Unfortunately, the College announcements contained very little in the way of her background or the other two candidates.

The Blog is working on obtaining information about the other two candidates that may be helpful.

Dr. Rhine’s background information  is extensive.

Lisa B. Rhine Bio

Lisa B. Rhine, Ph.D. is the third provost of the Chesapeake Campus of Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Virginia. Prior to joining Tidewater Community College in August 2013, she served for two years as Interim Vice President for Student Affairs following a three years appointment as Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at Northern Kentucky University.

Previous to NKU, she served as Associate Provost for Student Success and Retention at Wittenberg University, Director of Learning Enhancement and Academic Development at the University of Dayton and Manager of Educational Support Services, among other positions, at Sinclair Community College in Ohio. With an educational career spanning more than twenty-eight years, Dr. Rhine’s passions have focused on expanding educational access and equity and leveraging collaborative partnerships internally and externally that increase educational opportunity and improve student success.

At Tidewater Community College, she spearheaded the creation of six career/technical dual enrollment pathways in partnership with local industry and the K-12 school division. Students achieve college credentials and necessary industry credentials concurrent with high school graduation creating a pipeline of qualified, skilled workers prepared for high wage, high demand jobs in the local community.

She also led the development of the five-year Quality Enhancement Plan required for reaccreditation to improve student learning. The Q.E.P., entitled P.A.C.E: Progressive Academic and Career Experience, lays out an innovative, intentional path for career readiness that spans the student journey to graduation. PACE requires intentional touchpoints throughout the college experience where students discern their interests and strengths, align them with an educational goals and participate in career exploration and experiential learning opportunities.

At NKU, Dr. Rhine led a college-wide initiative to improve student success and retention including creation of the infrastructure called University Connect and Persist . UCAP provides intentional networks of support for student to improve service delivery and retention and completion outcomes for students. She also coled (SP)  the college-wide effort and served as college liaison to the John Gardner Institute in implementation of the Foundations of Excellence Program to improve first year student success and progression to second year.

In 2016, Dr. Rhine was named an Aspen Presidential Fellow in the inaugural class by the Aspen Institute. The fellowship is a highly selective yearlong program to prepare those aspiring to or recently appointed to the community college presidency.

Dr. Rhine is also a 2012 graduate for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU) Millennium Leadership Initiative. MLI is a premier leadership program that provides individuals traditionally underrepresented in the highest ranks of higher education the opportunity to develop skills, gain a philosophical overview and build the network needed to advance to the presidency.

Dr. Rhine [says she] understands the challenges that many students face along their paths to success. She was a first generation college student who worked full-time while pursuing her college education.

She holds a doctorate in educational administration from Capella University and a master’s in special education from the University of Dayton.

 She graduated magna cum laude with her bachelor’s in rehabilitation counseling from Wright State University and has a certificate in deaf studies from Sinclair Community College. Dr. Rhine and her husband, also a life-long educator, have two children. Both sons attend college in Virginia.

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Two have already been turned down this year by other Community Colleges for top job as president 

Who will be selected to run the County’s $80 million dollar Community College?  The search committee has turned in three names and then ended the search.  The three are Dr. Michael Calvert, Dr. Linda Elliott-Nelson, and Dr. Lisa B. Rhine.  The Governing Board will apparently select one of them as the new president of the Community College on December 5.

Dr. Calvert has been president of Pratt Community College in Kansas for a little over five years.  Although a finalist, he was recently rejected for president of Kansas City Kansas Community College (March 2018) and Lamar State College-Orange (LSCO) College in Texas (May 2018).

Dr. Rhine is Provost and Chief Operating officer at the Chesapeake Campus of Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Virginia. She was recently rejected among the finalists for president of Glendale Community College (February 2018).  In February 13, 2018 he was one of four candidates for the president of Chesapeake College in Maryland but was rejected. Also, in spring 2018 she was one of three finalists for the presidency at Western Nevada College, Carson City, Nevada where she was rejected.  She is among four finalists as of November 4, 2018 for president of Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, CA. That decision is apparently still pending.

Unlike Calvert and Rhine, Dr. Elliott-Nelson does not appear to have been recently riding the community college “hire-me” presidential search circuit.  She is currently the Vice President for Learning Services at Arizona Western College. She began working for Arizona Western College in 1997 as a faculty Chair in the Division of Modern Languages. In 2006, she became the Dean of Instruction and in 2015, she became the Vice President of Learning Services at Arizona Western.

You may read the College’s press release to the newspapers about the three candidates in the online Camp Verde Bugle by clicking here.  

Does huge salary draw applicants like bees to honey?  In August ACCT Consultant said ACCT did not keep records regarding total applications so how is the new “record” achieved?

It was reported at the Governing Board meeting November 13 that Yavapai Community College had received 77 applications for the president’s position.  The announcement triggered two thoughts:  First, Pam Fisher, the ACCT Search Consultant retained by Yavapai Community College to help with its presidential search, who moderated the Verde Valley citizen forum August 27, was specifically asked at the meeting about  rumors that applications for the position were down. She explained to the group that the ACCT did not keep records regarding total applications.  Therefore, the rumor had no basis one way or the other.

Now, on November 13 Pat McCarver says the ACCT told her that the College had a record number of applications.  So the question:  If no record is kept, as told to us in August, how did the College break the record in November?  Or, is this another misunderstanding?

Second, did the $280,000 dollar salary drawing applicants like bees to honey? Should it be reduced? 

Clip regarding report of record number of applicants follows:

Based on Community and College input, Consultant adds 20 more ideal characteristics to draft version that already contained 21

Yavapai Community College has posted the new Search Committee Governing Board approved profile for a new College President on its web site.  Click here to go to web site where the final profile has been posted.  Among other changes to the original draft, the consultant added 20 more ideal characteristics a successful new President should possess. That brings the total, I think,  to 41.

The Blog has created a document in pdf showing the final version of the profile with the most recent changes underlined and in red. The changes were made after the Consultant met with the public, staff, faculty and the Governing Board.  The pdf may be accessed by clicking on the following. COMPARED DOC 

Says many applicants wait until the last minute; applications stay open until position closed;  October 26 is current target date for receipt of applications

Pam Fisher, the ACCT Search Consultant retained by Yavapai Community College to help with its presidential search, who moderated the Verde Valley citizen forum August 27, said  that rumors that applications for the position were down were unfounded.  She explained that the ACCT did not keep records regarding total applications.  Furthermore, she expects that some applicants will wait until close to the October 26 date before showing interest in the position.

The forum was devoted to providing citizen input to the Consultant from the Verde Valley on the following two questions:  (1) What are the major opportunities and challenges facing Yavapai College in the next 3-5 years?  (2) What would be the ideal personal and professional characteristics of the next Yavapai College president?

Committee made up of eleven from West side of County; Four from East side; two students

The West side of the County has locked up political control of the Yavapai Community College Presidential Search Committee by appointing eleven of its members from the West side of the County.  There are four members from the East side although Connie Harris has with one exception in 18 months sided with the West County Voting Bloc on the District Governing Board. She has not shown a proclivity to represent the interests of her east side constituents since her appointment, which was made only a few months after she moved to the Verde Valley.

The Committee is dominated by Prescott faculty and executives who spend most of their time on the Prescott Campus or working for west side interests. The composition is consistent with that of past years when the Committee was headed by Pat McCarver and the vast majority of members came from the Prescott area and spent most of their professional time and effort on the Prescott Campus.

The composition of the committee offers a window into how decisions have been made over the past 50 years that led to the development of a community college educational empire on the west side of the County while marginalizing the east side. The presidential search committees have from the outset been very effective in seeing to it that Prescott interests are served  by selecting a President who is going to become an easily Prescott influenced executive.

Draft profile claims the new president must continue the “College’s . . . fair allocation of resources;” a claim most  east side citizens realize is completely misleading

Yavapai Community College has announced that the Presidential Search webpages have finally been posted and are available at https://www.yc.edu/presidentsearch. A draft of a presidential profile can be found at https://www.yc.edu/v5content/human-resources/subs/president/profile.htm.

Included in the draft profile section is a statement that the new president must continue the “College’s . . . fair allocation of resources.”  Almost anyone living on the east side of the County who has seriously looked at the College operation is aware that the College has unfairly overwhelmingly allocated the County resources to build an economic educational community college empire on the west side of the County. The east side of the County has been educationally marginalized in the process.

Creates four questions to answer and then submit if you’re interested

Yavapai Community College is moving forward on selecting members to sit on the Search Committee for a new College President.  Using Survey Monkey the following questionnaire (see below) was developed.  All one needs to do is to complete the survey and submit it and you will be considered a potential member for the Committee.

The web survey can be found by clicking here. 

The survey you will see when you click on the web site is set out below. You must go to the web site to submit your application.

The web survey can be found by clicking here.

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Ensures strong voices from the east side of the County are muffled; Board rejects considering request from McCasland to be third member on the Selection Committee

The West County Voting-Bloc ensured that strong voices from the East side of the County would be muffled or little heard, if at all, when the 17 member Search Committee is assembled. This was accomplished in two ways: First, West County Voting-Block leader Pat McCarver will gather the potential nominees to the Committee.  She will then be joined by Connie Harris to help select the final membership.  McCarver’s long experience on the Governing Board will easily overshadow any suggestion that Harris, a novice, may make that McCarver does not agree with.  

Second, a suggestion from Deb McCasland that she or  another Board member be added to the Selection Committee was not seriously considered. Therefore, the power is retained by McCarver.

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