As a reminder, this week, finalist candidates for the Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs (EVP-ASA) will be interviewed on campus on Monday, March 14; Tuesday, March 15; Thursday, March 16; and Friday, March 17. All Campus Forums on each of those days will occur in the Automotive Showroom from 3 to 4 p.m. Please plan to attend and participate

If you are unable to attend, DVDs of each EVP-ASA Campus Open Forum will available in the Library on the day of a candidate’s Forum.

• Viewing of the DVDs will occur in the Library and will not be available for check-out.
• Feedback forms (on paper) will be available for those viewing the DVDs to complete.  (A lockbox in which to place completed feedback forms will be in the Library.)
• The deadline for viewing DVDs and submitting feedback forms is 5 p.m. on Monday, March 21, 2016.

Today’s EVP-ASA candidate is Dr. Dana Grove:

Immediately before Dr. Dana Grove became President of Morton College in Cicero, Illinois, the school was sanctioned with being On Notice by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in the areas of Governance, Strategic Planning and Assessment. The Board of Trustees made it clear that his highest priority as the new president was to have the sanction removed by the HLC as soon as possible. Because of his experience in leading assessment and strategic planning efforts at other colleges and because of his years as a peer reviewer for the HLC, the Morton College On Notice sanction was removed within a year. With 82% of its students Hispanic, Morton College is the sixth largest two-year public Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the country, out of 174 such colleges, making it the largest two-year public HSI east of the Mississippi River.

Within eight months of his coming to Morton College, Dr. Grove was able to negotiate with Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to grant the college $4.5 million of Illinois Jobs NOW! money for the construction of a ten-classroom facility that was sorely needed on campus. Because of his passion for active learning, Dr. Grove worked with faculty to design these classrooms as Learning Studios that promote cooperative and collaborative learning pedagogies.

For seven-and-a-half years, Dr. Grove was an executive vice president at Johnson County Community College, an institution with a fall enrollment of 21,000 credit students located on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area.   JCCC is one of only 18 community colleges whose CEOs comprise the Board for the League for Innovation in the Community College, the most prestigious two-year college organization in North America, if not world-wide. After arriving at JCCC in 2005, Dr. Grove had the distinction of being the college’s Representative to the League for Innovation Board, and as such, he attended all League for Innovation Board meetings and dialogued regularly with the CEOs and other League “reps.”

In 1985, Dr. Grove received his doctorate in English from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Afterwards, he was hired as a faculty member at Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa, where for ten years he taught a variety of courses in English and humanities. In 1993 the University of Iowa’s College of Education recognized his classroom efforts by giving him its Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award. From 1993-1995, he was also designated as Director of the English/Humanities Program, which was a faculty-chair position. In 1995, Dr. Grove became the Dean of Arts and Sciences at the college, supervising all liberal arts and transfer disciplines. In 2000, he was selected as the Vice President of Academic Services (CAO) at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois.

After serving as interim president of the Business and Technology campus of Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, Missouri, for six months, Dr. Grove is currently filling in as interim dean of instruction at the college.