Bluefield State College today announced Dr. Marsha Krotseng as the school’s 13th president, according to the West Virginia Metro News. Pending approval from the state’s Higher Education Policy Commission, Dr. Krotseng will succeed from BSC president Albert Walker, current president of Harris-Stowe State University.

Dr. Krotseng is the chancellor of the North Dakota University System.

The president of the Bluefield State College National Alumni Association is speaking out against the college’s presidential search, alleging in a letter to the Bluefield State Board of Governors that the process is fixed to give interim president Thomas Blevins the job.

The Gazette-Mail reported last weekend that Orlando Henderson called the process “inherently flawed, perverted, and discriminatory” and designed “to deny equal employment opportunity at a Historically Black College.”

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