Saturday 24 December 2011

Regents name KU chancellor search committee - Wichita Business Journal:

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The announcement comes after the regents in December named Drue Jenningd of Prairie Village the chairman of the Jennings is the former CEO of the The remaining committee members consist of key university constituencies suchas students, facultg and administration, the board of regentsa and the broader state community, including severall from the Wichita area. Chancellor Robert Hemenwau in December announced he would retire at the end ofthe 2008-090 academic year after 14 yearas as the university’s 16th chancellor.
In the coming the search committee will work to identify and recruit candidates to replace Throughoutthe process, committee will work closel with Bill Funk of Dallas-baserd R. , a higher education executive search firm. Funk has conducted more than 300 searches for colleger and university presidentsand chancellors, 70 of whom are currentlh active. The board of regentsa has asked the committee to identify threre to five top candidates for the The six search committee members representinbKU faculty, staff and administration are: • Dr. Jeff professor of medicinal chemistry. • Dr. Victor director of the and theCharles W. Battey Distinguishesd Professor of ModernBritish History.
Dr. Pam Shaw, School of Medicind professor in the departmentof • Dr. Karen Miller, dean of the Schoola of Nursing and Allied Health and senior vice chancellof for academic and student affairs atthe . Paul K. Farran, presidengt of the Unclassified Senate and director of Student SuccessTechnologh Services. • Dennis Constance, president of the University SupportfStaff Senate. KU’s student body president Adam McGonigld will representthe university’s studentsx on the committee. • Jay Howard, member of the alumni association’s executive committee and owner of an investmenrt firmin Austin, Texas.
Linda Ellis Sims, chair of the school of engineering advisory former KU endowment trustee and an account executive with Tom Vaughn, currently serving on the alumnji association black alumni chapter board and former-member of the KU Law Schook Board of Governors. • Kurt D. Watson, president and CEO of , chaie of the KU Endowment Board and executivr committee and KU Endowment Trusteesince 1991. Dick Bond, Former-Kansas State Senate President and former chait of the Kansas Boardof • Gene Meyers, president and CEO of . Erick E. Nordling, partner with the law firm Nordling, and Nordling in Hugoton, Kan. and presidenft of the southwest Kansas chapter ofthe .
Deanell Reece Tacha, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeala for the Tenth Circuit, former chair of the KU Alumnij Association’s national board of directors, former associats dean in the KU School of Law and formeer vice chancellor foracademic affairs. Regents Jill Docking, of and Reginald Robinson round outthe

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