NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously approved Ty A. Stone as the new president of Cleveland State Community College.
Stone, who has been serving as president of Jefferson Community College in Watertown, New York, succeeds Cleveland State President Bill Seymour, who is retiring June 30. Stone’s first official day on the job will be July 1.
Stone was selected from among four finalists for the position at Cleveland State, which has some 3,500 credit students and 1,500 noncredit students. Officials began with an original pool of 66 applicants. Finalists visited Cleveland State and met with the campus community as well as local government and civic and business leaders.
“I was moved by the commitment and the engagement of everyone who served on this committee,” Stone told regents following the vote. “It just validated for me that Cleveland State is a very special place and definitely someplace that I want to be. So I want to thank the chancellor and the regents for having the confidence in me to be able to step into the big shoes that I have to step into and to do the great work that Cleveland has to do in the community.”
Stone earned her doctorate in organization and management at Capella University and her master’s in business administration with a concentration in organizational strategy at Trinity University. She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration at Washington Adventist University.