Three in running to lead CCSN

CARSON CITY -- Three candidates are being considered to become interim president at the Community College of Southern Nevada.

Board of Regents Chairwoman Jill Derby, who will recommend the candidate, said Thursday she has not made up her mind which of the CCSN employees will succeed Richard Moore to lead the school.

Moore has been named founding president of the proposed four-year state college in Henderson effective Jan. 15.

And the regents of the University and Community College System of Nevada meet Jan. 13 at CCSN to select an interim president.

Derby said she and Acting Chancellor Tom Anderes will be on the campus Tuesday and Wednesday meeting with everybody who wants to have a say. She said there will be appointments scheduled 15 minutes apart for groups or individuals to voice their preference.

The leading candidates, she said, are Bob Silverman, senior vice president of academic affairs; Al Ruter, vice president of finance and administration, and Candace Kant, chairwoman of the faculty senate at CCSN. Kant, she said, has had administrative experience previously.

"Those are the obvious ones," Derby said. But she added she is open to any suggestions and hasn't made up her mind.

She and Anderes will present their recommendations to the full Board of Regents.

Additionally, the regents will hear a brief presentation from Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and City Councilmen Larry Brown and Michael Mack on the possibility of creating a UNLV campus at the Northwest Town Center project. This is a newly developing area, and there have been discussions about locating a satellite campus there.

The board also will vote to approve the promotion of Dr. John Gallagher from executive director of the UNLV Foundation to vice president for development. The title change does not mean a higher salary.

And James Coleman is being proposed as vice president for research and business development at the Desert Research Institute. Coleman has been serving as the interim vice president, and his salary will remain the same.

Also on the agenda is discussion of getting money for the Henderson college, which must first be approved by the Nevada Legislature. There was $500,000 allocated last year to finance a study of the feasibility of setting up the college and a good share of that money is available to pay Moore and staff in the initial stage of development.

But other money will be needed to keep the college going until the Legislature decides whether it should be approved.

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