Provost candidate says higher education faces many challenges

Le Gene Quesenberry, the last of four candidates for Montana State University-Northern's provost positions to be interviewed, talked Wednesday about the importance of collaboration and reaching out to nontraditional students during a public forum in Hensler Auditorium in Northern's Applied Technology Center.

"Everything I do is going to be based somewhat on data," she said. "That does not mean I won't have some qualitative data in there as well, but I want data points, I am not going to make decisions based on anecdotal evidence or relationships. It has to be based on what does this informatio...