June 23, 2011 – Manchester, Jamaica…Nigel Coke/IAD
One week after the retirement of longstanding president Dr. Herbert Thompson, the Board of Governors of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has put in place an interim president. Dr. Daniel Fider who has been serving at NCU for the past twelve years in various capacities is the new institution’s president. He had been serving as vice president with responsibility for Facilities Planning and Information Services and an Associate Professor of Leadership.
Before he joined the workforce of NCU twelve years ago, Dr. Fider who is also an auditor by profession, worked for 25 years with multi-national corporations in the areas of management, accounting and forensic auditing.
“It is a privilege and also a challenge, which I humbly accept, to serve in the interim as president of this great Adventist Institution,” said Dr. Fider. “We are at a point of transition and at a point that we need to continue what was started years ago. My commitment and determination is to do what my church and university ask me to do. With the support of the faculty and staff, and the understanding of students, I think we can move forward doing great things for this university until the position is filled permanently.”
The university board has also selected an search team, a normal procedure when the position of president is to be filled, church leaders said.
“The Board of Governors believes that Dr. Fider has the ability and experience to provide leadership to our University during this transitional stage,” said NCU Board Chairman Pastor Everett Brown who also serves as president of the church in Jamaica. “We pledge our support to him and his team as they lead the University.”
NCU is co-owned and operated by the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (JAMU) and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists (ACUM), both of which came out of the reorganization of the former West Indies Union Conference in November 2010.
