Northern looks to replace retiring Provost Joe Callahan

Montana State University-Northern is searching for a replacement for its provost, who is ending a relationship with Havre's university that goes back to 1973. Joe Callahan, who left in 1986 and came back to Northern in a two-year interim position as provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs in 2007 — and has stayed an extra year — has announced his retirement effective June 30. He said he will return to Dickinson, N.D., where his wife, Dr. Kim Callahan, has a private practice as an audiologist. Callahan said Thursday he decided that he was ready to end his long career in education...