An interim president has been named for Dakota State University in Madison.  Doctor David Borofsky will begin his duties on the Madison campus in early February and will serve in a temporary capacity through mid-year of 2013.  Borofsky is currently serving as provost and chief academic officer of Westwood College, which is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.  Westwood College is a for-profit college with 18 physical locations in six states and serves about 17-thousand students a year enrolled in diploma, associate, bachelor, and master degree programs. 
Regents President Kathryn Johnson said Doctor Borofsky’s experience at Westwood, which is an institution highly focused on information technology and computer-related degrees, will be an “excellent fit” for his new work at Dakota State.
Johnson said the regents worked with the Registry for College and University Presidents, a national search firm that specializes in identifying candidates for transitional interim leadership roles. Borofsky will not be a candidate for the permanent president’s position at Dakota State.
The presidential search process is expected to commence this summer. Members of a search and screen committee, including representatives from the DSU campus and the Madison community, will be appointed in June to assist the board in that process.
A farewell reception is planned for D-S-U President Doctor Doug Knowlton and his wife, Sharon, at the Dakota Prairie Playhouse on Thursday, February 9th.  Knowlton will assume the role of Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs with the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System on February 13th after serving 8 years as D-S-U’s president.