FARGO — The board that oversees the North Dakota University System will consider a policy change stating presidential vacancies at colleges and universities may be filled without doing a search. The proposed change also clarifies that colleges and universities are responsible for the costs of presidential search consultants and finalists’ travel. Dan Leingang replaced Sanford as interim president of Bismarck State College in the spring after Sanford was named interim chancellor. Sanford said there’s no tie between the proposed policy change relating to presidential searches and the board’s consideration of two interim presidents to possibly be appointed presidents. “The policy change has been worked on for a while, and it was part of discussions coming out of the (legislative) session,” Sanford said.