His goals include prioritizing the college’s academic programs, increasing funding and stabilizing enrollment. Rittle, 52, said he is excited to start planning where he wants the state’s largest two-year college to be in the next several years. Rittle, a Pennsylvania native, a former pastor and the first in his family to attend college, replaced Evelyn Jorgenson, who retired after the 2021-22 academic year.
That phone call was this past spring, and Rittle began the job as NWACC’s fourth president on July 11. It was the most satisfying moment of my professional career, no doubt about it.” “Outside of the birth of my children and my marriage and other personal events, it was the greatest moment of my life. We didn’t know what the decision was, just that would get a call. “The college had hired the Association of Community College Trustees, the ACCT, as their search firm, and it was Kennon Briggs who called. “I was sitting peaceably in my den,” he said.
In a recent interview at Burns Hall on the Bentonville college campus, he recalled the phone call vividly. Dennis Rittle said getting hired as president at NorthWest Arkansas Community College is one of his life’s great moments.
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