ELIZABETHTON — Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Flora W. Tydings has made her advice on who must be the subsequent chief of the Tennessee Faculty of Utilized Expertise-Elizabethton.

Tydings introduced on Tuesday that she is recommending David Hicks to be the subsequent president of the Elizabethton faculty. The Regents will contemplate the appointment throughout a particular known as assembly on Could 25. An earlier press launch mentioned the 2 finalists, Hicks and TCAT-Elizabethton Vice President Danny Ray O’Quinn, have been interviewed in public boards on the campus on Could 3.

After the boards, Tydings adopted the process by reviewing the enter from the campus neighborhood and public, performed additional interviews with Hicks and O’Quinn after which made her advice to the Regents for a single candidate.

Hicks is a profession educator in Georgia. Hh has been superintendent of Bremen Metropolis Faculties in Bremen, Georgia, since 2010. He’s additionally an adjunct professor at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia.

“I’m delighted to advocate Dr. David Hicks for the board’s consideration,” Tydings mentioned. “I wish to thank members of the search committee for his or her work in choosing two wonderful finalists. I consider — after watching the boards, reviewing enter from the campus neighborhood and interviewing the candidates — that Dr. Hicks is one of the best candidate to steer the faculty in its service to northeastern Tennessee.”

Hicks earned a health care provider of training diploma and a grasp’s diploma, each in instructional management, from Valdosta State College, and a bachelor of science diploma in historical past/secondary training at Georgia Southwestern State College.

Previous to his service as superintendent of Bremen Metropolis Faculties, he was superintendent of Hart County Faculties, one other Okay-12 public faculty system in Georgia. He started his training profession as a highschool social research instructor at Dooly County Excessive Faculty and spent the next 9 years as a instructor, assistant principal and principal. His full resume and different details about the search are posted on the TBR web site at https://www.tbr.edu/hr/executivesearches/president-tcat-elizabethton.

The opposite finalist, O’Quinn, can also be a profession educator who has served within the Elizabethton Metropolis Faculty System and presently serves on the Elizabethton Metropolis Board of Training.

The person chosen by the Regents will succeed President Dean Blevins, who’s retiring in June after practically 13 years of service as TCAT-Elizabethton’s sixth chief govt officer and 35 years in profession and technical training.

The Regents will meet by teleconferencing at 1:30 p.m. EDT to contemplate appearing on the chancellor’s advice. The assembly might be livestreamed and archived on the TBR web site at https://www.tbr.edu/board/may-25-2022-special-called-board-meeting.

The board started the method of selecting Blevins’ successor on Jan. 31. A 14-member search committee, chaired by Regent Miles Burdine, performed the search, which included reviewing software supplies from 15 candidates representing a broad spectrum of experiences and backgrounds.