Interim director of SC’s higher ed agency named president of Midlands Tech
Midlands Technical College has tapped Greg Little, a former K-12 superintendent, as its seventh president. (Provided by Midlands Tech)
COLUMBIA — Midlands Technical College has tapped the former K-12 superintendent of a Columbia area school district to lead the two-year school as it seeks to train students for an influx of new manufacturing jobs in the state.
The governing board of Midlands Tech this week named Greg Little as the college’s seventh president. The decision may require the board for the state Commission on Higher Education to move quicker in making its own decision.
Little will take over for retiring Midlands Tech President Ron Rhames on July 1. Rhames worked 34 years for his alma mater, spending the last nine at the helm.
Little was superintendent of Lexington School District One, the state’s sixth-largest district, for six years until resigning in 2022 to take a post with the state Technical College System. Little worked for the technical colleges as vice president of strategic partnerships and innovation for just shy of two years.
Little will guide the technical school through a major transition as it seeks to educate a workforce for the Midland’s first automotive manufacturer, Scout Motors. The Volkswagen subsidiary plans to employ upwards of 4,000 people at its electric vehicle assembly plant in Blythewood — a plant which could eventually double in size.
The school, which has campuses across three counties, has roughly 10,000 full- and part-time students, including high schoolers earning college credit, according to the state higher education agency.
For the past month, Little has served as acting executive director of a transitioning Commission on Higher Education after the former director resigned.
Little was the second interim director of the agency in as many months. Karen Woodfaulk, the agency’s student affairs division head, had been serving in the temporary role before Little’s arrival.
Former director Rusty Monhollon stepped down in the wake of a report from state Inspector General Brian Lamkin that the agency had allowed $152 million in unspent state lottery profits intended for college scholarships to pile up over six years.
The search for a permanent director is ongoing, according to Commission on Higher Education spokesman Mark Swart. The agency anticipates naming a replacement ahead of Little’s departure later this summer.
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