Five candidates for the position of Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs have been selected
Five candidates for the position of Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs have been selected. Candidate interviews start next week, April 4th.
Candidate Douglas Wermedal’s public forum will be from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 5th in CMU 101.
Douglas R.Wermedal, Ph.D. currently serves South Dakota State University as Interim Vice President for Student Affairs a position he has held since August 2014. Dr. Wermedal holds a B.S. degree from SDSU in agricultural journalism, an M.S. in education from Eastern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in sociology, also from SDSU. He has advanced in the ranks of SDSU Student Affairs leadership since joining the division in 1998. He previously worked in residential life at Emporia State University in Kansas, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, the University of North Dakota and Eastern Illinois University. As a first-generation college student himself, Dr. Wermedal believes deeply in the importance of education as an engine of social and individual change. He has been elected to the presidency of his K-12 school board six times in his nine years of service to this board.
The other four candidates are Laura Bayless, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Michael Sachs, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at East Stroudsburg of the University of Pennsylvania, Brenda Amenson-Hill, Dean of Students at The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Edgar Berry, former Vice President for Student Affairs at Texas College.