SHAWNEE COLLEGE NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

SHAWNEE -- Dr. Terry G. Ludwig was selected as the fourth president of Shawnee Community College at the July 1 Board of Trustees meeting. Ludwig's selection came as the result of a long process which narrowed the field from 97 applicants to four finalists.

Wesley Wright, Shawnee board chairperson, said, "Dr. Ludwig was selected because of his energy, vision, enthusiasm and his ability to keep the momentum going."

Ludwig is currently vice-president of Academic Affairs at Morton Community College in Cicero, Ill. Wright and William Whitnel, Shawnee board member, visited Ludwig's home campus June 27 and interviewed college staff and students. They also visited Ludwig's home community of Elmhurst, Ill.

The board has executed an oral agreement with Ludwig, subject to final approval of the contract. He is scheduled to begin his new duties Aug. 5.

In 1986, Ludwig assumed his current position at Morton, a small metropolitan community college. While at Morton, Ludwig has been instrumental in broadening the college's role in serving nontraditional students. In order to reach newly arriving ethnic minorities he helped create "We Care: The Morton College Multi-Cultural Initiative." In 1994, Morton won the Illinois Community College Board's Teaching Learning Award for the program, in which more than 100 college staff and area educators took cultural awareness and Spanish language courses.

Ludwig is married and has two grown children. His wife, Diana, is a seventh-grade English teacher. His daughter, Tara, is a registered nurse. His son, Nicholas, is a third-year student in law enforcement at Western Illinois University.