Jim Madder is the new president of Thunder Bay's Confederation College.
He replaces Patricia Lang who is retiring this summer.
Madder arrives from Red Deer (Alta.) College, where he is the academic executive vice-president. He assumes his new duties in July.
Before that he made career stops with the Association of Canadian Community Colleges and Sir Sandford Fleming College in Lindsay.
In a May 18 statement, Confederation board chair Marilyn Gouthro said Madder was the best candidate “that would carry Confederation forward in alignment with our new strategic plan.”
The college also cut the ribbon on a new campus in Wawa, May 19.
The campus is one of eight regional sites in Northern Ontario.
It will offer one- and two-year diploma programs this fall in accounting, human resources, hospitality management, pre-health sciences, protective services and investigation (PSI) mining techniques.
“We listen to the leadership and gear much of our academic programming to the current demands in each marketplace,” said Bob Backstrom, Vice-President of Corporate Services.
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