Vice President of Academic Affairs Takes New Position posted 4/3/09
Dr. Dale Nesbary has been named Muskegon Community College President

ADRIAN, Mich. – Adrian College is proud to announce that on April 2, 2009, Dr. Dale Nesbary, vice president & dean of academic affairs, was named by the Muskegon Community College Board of Trustees as their next president.

The starting date is to be determined but it will fall between now and July 1, 2009. This appointment is pending Dr. Nesbary’s contractual agreement with the MCC Board of Trustees. Dr. Nesbary has done outstanding work at Adrian College; Adrian’s loss is MCC’s gain and we will miss him greatly.

President Docking remarked on the appointment, “In less than three years, Dr. Nesbary’s accomplishments at Adrian College are nothing short of extraordinary. He has reconstructed or refurbished several academic buildings including Communication Arts and Sciences, Foreign Languages, Knight Auditorium, among others throughout campus. He significantly upgraded information technology at Adrian College and was a key player in securing two government grants (nearly $1,000,000) for science facility improvements.”

“Dr. Nesbary added faculty members in a number of critical areas and launched a program review process that will lead Adrian into the future,” continued Docking. “He inaugurated four new institutes – Entrepreneurial Studies, Health Studies, Ethics, and Study Abroad – and enhanced morale through his honest and ethical leadership. He will be missed.”

According to the MCC website, Muskegon Community College is “an associate degree-granting institution of higher education and is a center for lifelong learning which provides persons the opportunity to attain their educational goals by offering programs that respond to individual, community and global needs.”

MCC is a publicly supported educational institution currently serving nearly 5,000 students. To learn more about this college, please visit their website at www.muskegoncc.edu .

“Dr. Nesbary’s appointment speaks highly of Adrian College in that it now produces presidents for other esteemed institutions,” said Docking.

Dr. Nesbary said that he highly appreciates the opportunity to lead a strong faculty and work with exceptional leaders during these remarkable and exciting days at Adrian College.

“I feel fortunate and want to thank President Docking for the opportunity to learn and grow professionally at Adrian during these past three years,” said Nesbary.

Adrian College is a private, co-educational college of liberal arts and sciences related to The United Methodist Church. It is a traditional four-year, residential college that focuses completely on undergraduate education.

In its 2009 edition of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Adrian College as 22nd in the Midwest region in its “Best Baccalaureate Colleges” section. The College was also ranked as a “School to Watch”. According to U.S. News, in the Spring 2008 top college officials identified 70 colleges and universities throughout the country as schools that have recently made the most promising and innovative changes in academics, faculty, students, campus, or facilities and Adrian was one of them.