President Nadauld's interim duties questioned
Whitney Phillips and Rachel Tanner
Issue date: 11/16/09 Section: DSC News
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"Some are concerned with the process, not the man," said Dennis Wignall, communication professor and faculty senate president. "To some faculty, it's a concern that there's no permanent leadership in place."
Nadauld was appointed as Dixie State College's interim president in March 2008 after the resignation of President Lee Caldwell. Nadauld said when he was appointed, the board of regents did not tell him how long he would be performing his interim duties.
"They just told me to head down and see if I could help them," he said. "I think that has to do with the assessment of the background that I brought to the interim assignment. I think with some backgrounds that you'd bring to an interim assignment they might say 'We want you here for X amount of months,' but I think their sense was that I brought in a different background-one with a lot of experience."
From the regents' perspective, there has never been any stipulation on how long Nadauld could stay at DSC. However, according to a Sept. 24, 2008, Dixie Sun article by Holland Olsen titled "Rumors about Nadauld's presidency clarified," Nadauld's original agreement had him serving as president of DSC for a period of 12-18 months.
"There's been no official contract, so it's been an ongoing discussion as to how long President Nadauld will fulfill these duties," said Spencer Jenkins, assistant commissioner for public affairs of Utah's System of Higher Education.
That lack of specificity may be part of the reason some at DSC are raising questions. Ed Reber, associate professor of English and faculty senate executive committee member, said he thinks the regents have left constituents out of the loop in terms of decisions on the position of college president.
"I don't believe we've been treated fairly by the board of regents," he said. "In the language of [students'] day, we've been dissed."
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