BLOUNTVILLE — Northeast State Community College presidential finalist Joel Welch said he would like to lead the school because the community has embraced it, and he said he loves Northeast Tennessee and its mountains as a place to finish raising his family, including an 11-year-old daughter. And although he is an engineer and “data-driven person,” Welch said he very much supports the arts and humanities. Welch, vice president of Instructional Services for Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C., appeared at a public forum Thursday morning at the NSCC main campus in Blountville in the Regional Center for the Performing Arts, the same venue for a forum Wednesday afternoon focusing on the other finalist, Bethany Flora, associate director of the Center for Community College Leadership at East Tennessee State University.