Six candidates will interview for an open position on the Kansas City Kansas Community College Board of Trustees on Thursday, May 19.
The meeting at 11 a.m. May 19 is open to the public. The meeting will be at the upper level Jewell Building on the KCKCC campus, 7250 State Ave.
A vacancy opened on the Board of Trustees upon the death of long-time trustee Mary Ann Flunder.
The six candidates include Phil Englehart, who holds a doctorate degree, a lecturer at the University of Kansas Department of Urban Planning and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri at Kansas City; Roslyn Brown, a public relations consultant who has worked with the juvenile justice program in Wyandotte County and is a former assistant to former Mayor Carol Marinovich; Monica Randle, an assistant principal at an elementary school; Joyce Spearman, a volunteer coordinator and project manager at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; Tyrone Garner, deputy chief of police in Kansas City, Kan.; and Micheal Strohschein, who holds a doctorate in education, senior director of continuing and professional education at the UMKC School of Education.
The candidates had submitted their names for consideration for the appointment.
The Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote to select a new board member at a meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 21, at the college.