The Mingus Union School Board Thursday night selected four finalists for the position of district superintendent. Those finalists will be in Cottonwood March 26 for tours of the community and campus. The next day, the board will interview the candidates individually.
The four finalists are: David Lykins, principal at Sedona Red Rock High School; Sue Segura, principal at Fernley High School in Fernley, Nev.; Timothy L. Foist, retired superintendent from Yuma High School District; and David R. Black of Sedona, retired superintendent of Winslow School District.
The Community Review Committee, created by the school board, spent all day Thursday in the school library using a rubric to score 13 applications. During Thursday night's school board meeting, the board went into executive session to select finalists.
David Lykins lives in Cornville and has been the principal at Sedona Red Rock High School since 2007. Before that, he was the assistant principal since 2000. He served as director of Juniper Canyon Charter School within Sedona Red Rock High School from 1999 to 2000.
Lykins has experience as an assistant principal in Florida where he also worked as a teacher and crisis intervention specialist. He also taught physical education and health in Florida and West Virginia.
Lykins earned a bachelor's in education from West Virginia Institute of Technology and a master's of educational leadership from Northern Arizona University.
Sue Segura lives in Fernley, Nev. where she has been principal of Fernley High School within the Lyon County School District since 2007.
From 2006 to 2007, she was director of professional development in the same district after serving as principal at the same school where she is now from 2001. She was principal at Smith Valley School in the same district from 2000 to 2001.
Segura was principal at Sonoma Heights Elementary School in the Humboldt County District from 1992 to 2000. Before that, she worked as a vice principal from 1991 to 1992 and as a classroom teacher from 1981 to 1991.
She earned a bachelor's of education in 1981 from the University of Nevada at Reno. Her master's in educational leadership came from the same university in 1990, and she earned a doctorate of educational leadership from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 2007.
Timothy Foist lives in Gypsum, Kan. He worked as superintendent on a retired extended contract in 2007 at Yuma Union High School District.
He was superintendent at Holbrook Unified School District from 2000 to 2004, and served as district superintendent at Auburn Community Schools in Auburn, Neb. from 1998 to 2000. From 1996 to 1998, he was superintendent of Republican Valley in Indianola, Neb.
Foist also worked as an elementary school principal in Sabetha, Kan. from 1986 to 1996, and as a K-12 principal in Fort Peck, Mont. from 1983 to 1986.
Foist earned a bachelor's of physical education in 1973 from Indiana State University. In 1982, he earned a master's of education from the same University.
David Black of Sedona is retired as superintendent of Winslow Unified School District.
No dates are listed on his resume. His resume also lists, without dates or names of schools, a bachelor's in elementary education, a master's in elementary education and a doctorate in educational administration.
Black's resume also lists experience, without dates or locations, as superintendent, interim superintendent, assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal and as a teacher and coach.
Reader Comments
Posted: Saturday, March 07, 2009
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Nonsensical
Let's see-- nobody wants the superintendent job at Mingus but because a national search (conducted by the Alexander's friend), costing thousands occurs, turning up mainly locals, "Mingus will rock this year." This statement is nonsensical.
Posted: Friday, March 06, 2009
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Mingus will rock this year
To answer WHY did the MUHS board pay thousands of dollars for a search firm to only end up with two locals and two people from out of town as candidates. It is because all you need to do is go to any search engine on the internet and type in, "Mingus High School Superintendent" and you will find all the dirt about the history of this position at Mingus. If you were looking for a job as a Superintendent would you want to risk your career applying at a school with the history that Mingus has in that position? Probably not. I predict that Mingus is on a fresh and new path and that we will be hearing more positive press about the administration, the board, and the teachers in the future.
Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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Keep the money in the classroom
And WHY did the MUHS board pay thousands of dollars for a search firm to only end up with two locals and two people from out of town as candidates? Seems like they could have gotten this response from an ad in the Verde Independent for under $100!!!
