Name: Galen DeHay
Representing: Community Colleges of Appalachia
Job Title: President
Institution: Tri-County Technical College (SC)
Since: 2019
Previous Positions: Tri-County Technical College – Senior Vice President (2014-2019); Assistant Vice President for Curriculum & Institutional Effectiveness (2013-2014); Director of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness (2012-2013); Science Department Chair (2007-2011); Instructor, Biology (1999-2007)
Affiliations and/or Boards: South Carolina Commission on Higher Education’s Council of Presidents; Community Colleges of Appalachia; AnMed; Foothills CAN; Ten at the Top; WorkLink Workforce Development; South Carolina Coordinating Council for Workforce Development; and BASF Seneca Community Advisory
State Engagement: South Carolina Commission on Higher Education’s Council of Presidents (Chair); WorkLink Workforce Development (Member); South Carolina Coordinating Council for Workforce Development (Member)
Past AACC Conventions Attended: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 WDI, 2017, 2015, 2014
Education: B.S. Biological Sciences M.S. Zoology; Ph.D. Educational Leadership, Clemson University
Other: Aspen Presidential Fellow (2019-2020); Riley Institute’s Diversity
Leadership Initiative; CEO of the Year awarded by South Carolina
Association of Technical College Commissioners (2020); Governor’s
Professor of the Year award for two-year institutions; Tri-County’s
Presidential Medallion for Instructional Excellence and Administrator of the Year awards.