During their meeting held Tuesday evening, the Amarillo College Board of Regents named two finalists for the position of the college’s president. One is an internal candidate, and one is in a leadership role at a college in Florida.
The two finalists are Dr. Jamelle J. Conner, vice president of student affairs at St. Petersburg College, a four-year public college in Pinellas County, Fla., according to an AC news release, and Dr. Frank Sobey, vice president of academic affairs (VPAA) at Amarillo College.
Sobey, Ed.D., joined the AC faculty as an instructor of English in 2005 and steadily ascended since – to assistant professor (2009), chair of English, Humanities, and Languages (2014), dean of Arts and Sciences (2016), and associate VPAA (also in 2016), AC said in the release. He was named VPAA earlier this year. The San Antonio native has three degrees from Texas Tech University, including a doctoral degree in higher education administration. He has chaired or helped lead high-priority initiatives at AC, from coordination of the school’s participation in Texas Pathways to supporting the development of the award-winning Rural Nursing Education Consortium, according to the release.