WINONA, Minn. – An exodus of leadership at Minnesota State College Southeast is unrelated to the disciplinary proceedings against the college president, a college spokesperson told the Winona Post. Of the college’s seven top administrators, five departed as the case against college President Marsha Danielson was unfolding for financial and personnel misconduct. Danielson remains in her $188,000 position as college presiden while state Chancellor Dewinder Malhotra ponders possible disciplinary action. Four administrators left the college in the second half of 2022:

> Heather Conley, academic dean, who was appointed in September 2020.

>Ann Deiman, dean of faculty, who was appointed in September 2020.

> Chad Dull, vice president student success, who was appointed January 29022.

> Josiah Litant, vice president of student affairs,  who appointed in Januay 2022.

A fifth administrator, finance Vice President Amy Schmidt, resigned last week.

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Southeast College profile

Minnesota State College Southeast comprises two campuses – one in Winona, one in Red Wing.  The college was created in 2016, combining what originally was Winona Vo-Tech, which dated to 1949, and the Red Wing Vocational Technical Institute, which dated to 1971. Nobody ever much liked the new name – Minnesota Sate College Southeast Technical. It hardly hardly tipples off the tongue and is nightmarish for headline writers. The name was meant to transcend the college’s vocational roots. Shedding “Winona” from the name was intended also not to slight Red Wing and to set the college apart from Winona State University.  Together the bi-campuses enrollment is 2,600, more than half of whom are part-time. There are 50 programs in vocational career fields: Business and management, Education, human services, engineering, manufacturing and trades, health sciences, information technologies, musical instrument repair, and  transportation. There also is a two-year diploma in liberal arts. The split campus configuration, each 60 miles apart, has been a continuing logistically and administratively problematic.