Gov. Kristi Noem announced two new appointees to the Board of Technical Education on Thursday.
Kay Schallenkamp and Brad Greenway will join the board. Schallenkamp will replace Scott Knuppe, and Greenway will replace Rod Bowar. Both appointments are effective Nov. 1.
Noem also appointed two new board members last week: Brian Sandvig and Joy Nelson.
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“The new members of the Board of Technical Education will ensure that South Dakota’s technical colleges remain the very best in America,” Noem said in a statement. “Kay and Brad’s expertise will help put our kids and grandkids on a path to lifelong success.”
Schallenkamp served 41 years in higher education prior to her retirement in 2014. She served as President of Black Hills State University from 2006-2014 and President of Emporia State University in Kansas from 1997-2006.
Prior to that, Schallenkamp served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Provost at Chadron State College in Nebraska. She started her higher education career at Northern State University as a faculty member of communication disorders and later served as department chair and dean.
Schallenkamp is currently on the Board of Directors for the Crazy Horse Memorial, Board of Trustees for Baker University in Kansas, and the Cultural and Diversity Committee for the Sanford Underground Lab. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, the SD Board of Educational Standards, and the SD Board of Junior Achievement.
She also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the North Central Association (now the Higher Learning Commission) and the Renaissance Group.
In addition, she served as chair of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the Presidents Council for NCAA Division II, and the National Teachers Hall of Fame, as well as the steering committee for the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. Schallenkamp served as a Consultant Evaluator for the Higher Learning Commission for 25 years.
Greenway attended one year at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, MN before returning to Mitchell and graduating with an associate degree in Agriculture Management from Mitchell Technical Institute in 1984.
Locally, Greenway serves on the township board, Davison County Fair Board, has been involved with the Davison County Pork Council for 30 years, and served on the SD Pork Producers Council from 2000 to 2015, including as president from 2005-2006. He served on the National Pork Board (Pork Checkoff) from 2009 to 2015. He most recently was a board member for U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action and served as chairman from 2016-2018.
Greenway has received several statewide awards including Pork All American, Governor’s 2014 Ag Ambassador of the Year, Mitchell Technical Institute Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in 2016, and together with his wife Peggy received the South Dakota Pork Promoters of the Year award in 2015. Greenway was selected as America’s Pig Farmer of the Year in 2016.
Greenway and his wife Peggy farm just west of Mitchell, South Dakota.