By Juan Montoya
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With all the members participating in the selection process, the board of the Texas Southmost College selected Roberto Rodriguez to be the next president of the community college after nationwide search.
The board went into executive session at 5:50 p.m. and emerged at 6:12 – 22 minutes later.
A board executive committee narrowed the search to four candidates and – after a series of public forums – the choice came down to two: Rodriguez and David E. Pearson.
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Rodriguez's experience includes serving as the dean for the Business Center of Excellence at Houston Community College since July 2015 and dean for the Lone Star Community College System from February 2006 to July 2012. In between he worked at the Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, from August 2012 to July 2015.
Pearson – who was vice president of partnership affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College from 2006 to 2010 – is also a U.S. Army veteran and was the dean of the San Diego State University Imperial Valley Campus in Calexico, Calif., from 2010 to 2015.
With all the members participating in the selection process, the board of the Texas Southmost College selected Roberto Rodriguez to be the next president of the community college after nationwide search.The board went into executive session at 5:50 p.m. and emerged at 6:12 – 22 minutes later.
A board executive committee narrowed the search to four candidates and – after a series of public forums – the choice came down to two: Rodriguez and David E. Pearson.
Pearson – who was vice president of partnership affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College from 2006 to 2010 – is also a U.S. Army veteran and was the dean of the San Diego State University Imperial Valley Campus in Calexico, Calif., from 2010 to 2015.