Donald Day selected as president of Leech Lake Tribal College

CASS LAKE - Leech Lake Tribal College has selected the director of the American Indian Resource Center at Bemidji State University as its next president.

Donald Day will take over Aug. 13 as president at Leech Lake Tribal College, a public two-year college providing higher education grounded in Anishinaabe values.

Day will succeed Ginny Carney, who is retiring after more than a decade at the college, a news release from the LLTC's board of trustees announced Thursday.

Day has worked more than 35 years in education, including roles in academic counseling, teaching, research, student services, curriculum development and administration.

Read more Friday in the Pioneer.