Evans Named Moultrie Tech Vice President of Operations
TIFTON , GA. What began almost three decades ago as technical training in industrial maintenance and industrial controls at then Ben Hill-Irwin Technical Institute in 1982 has come full circle for Fitzgerald’s David Evans.
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| David Evans , Moultrie Technical College Vice President of Operations |
Dr. Tina Anderson, president of Moultrie Technical College (MTC), has named Evans vice president of operations, a position he began on June 1 at the College’s Tifton Campus. He replaces Dr. Shawn Utley who was named the vice president of economic development following the retirement of Tifton’s Carol Mathews in May.
Evans obtained his industrial program diplomas in Fitzgerald in 1985 and put his skills to work as an industrial electrician at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Albany before he was hired to teach at his alma mater in 1988.
He began his new career in higher education at the newly-named East Central Technical College, formerly Ben Hill-Irwin Technical Institute, as the industrial maintenance instructor and taught in that capacity for close to 10 years.
His own education didn’t stop with his technical college diplomas. Between 1990 and 1999, Evans added several academic credentials to his résumé by earning an Associate degree in education from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Valdosta State University (VSU) as well as a Master of vocational education degree from VSU.
With the necessary collegiate and technical training under his belt, Evans was promoted to instructional supervisor and director at East Central Tech and established the College’s new campus in Turner County in 1997. And when the Turner County service delivery area and its Ashburn campus were handed to Moultrie Technical College by Georgia’s Technical College System, he stayed with Moultrie Tech to oversee it through 2001.
As the MTC campus in Tifton continued to flourish and multiply its student enrollment numbers, Evans moved to that location to serve as the dean of academic affairs in 2001 until his most recent promotion to one of the College’s five vice presidential positions.
In his new role Evans is charged with maintaining quality instruction for the Tifton Campus, the Turner County Campus in Ashburn and the Worth County Campus in Sylvester through daily contact with instructors and through program development.
Evans said he believes the greatest and most positive change in the College’s instructional offerings is in the Dual Enrollment program in which students can gain high school and technical college credit simultaneously.
Already he has seen growth, both in student numbers and their academic successes, at Tifton’s former 6 th Street Academy, now called the Tift County Career and Technical Center and housed at MTC’s Tifton Campus. He said pre-enrollment for the fall of 2008 has doubled from its 2007 numbers, and the College has added two instructors to its faculty roster to serve the growing need.
An additional facet of his position will be the oversight of all five of the College’s campus facilities, including the Veterans Parkway and Industrial Drive campuses in Moultrie. This encompasses the master planning for future campus growth to include new buildings. Evans will work closely with state officials on projects paid for by state funding, with architects and with the College’s maintenance staff.
“Dr. Anderson has a vision for the school, and I am here to help carry out the master plan,” Evans said. “Dr. Utley has done a great job, and I want to carry on where he has left off and continue to make improvements.”
“Right now, the College is in good shape and is moving in the right direction,” he added.
But he said one of the first things he would like to do in his new job is to “save the College money by keeping more maintenance in-house using the qualified staff we have now.”
Evans and his wife Lisa reside in Fitzgerald and have two sons. Dave is a sophomore at VSU, and Jake is a junior at Fitzgerald High School. A deacon at First Baptist Church in Fitzgerald, he has also become active in community organizations in the counties he serves for Moultrie Tech.
He is a member of the Tifton-Tift County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Tifton Kiwanis Club and is a past member of the Ashburn-Turner County Chamber Board and the Turner County Connections Board.
With the majority of his time spent making Moultrie Tech better for students and faculty, Evans also finds time to maintain an electrical license, a real estate license and membership in the Georgia Realtors Association.
