DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) - The North Dakota University System has launched the search for a new president for Dickinson State University.
President D.C. Coston announced in February that he plans to retire once a new leader is found. He's been the school's president since 2011, after spending six years as vice president for agriculture and university extension at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
The university system has contracted with a consultant to help with the search for his successor. The deadline for candidates to apply is Aug. 3.
The university system says whoever is eventually chosen by the state Board of Higher Education as the next president would take the reins no later than Jan. 1, 2016.