PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 20, No.7, Oct. 5, 2000

Committee selected as search for new chancellor begins

Becky Mabry, Assistant Editor
(217) 244-1072; mabry@illinois.edu

The campus Senate and Senate Council have elected members of a search committee to advise the president on the hiring of a new Urbana-Champaign chancellor, and the list of those elected is being forwarded to university president James J. Stukel. Stukel will likely present the recommendations to the UI Board of Trustees at the Oct. 11 and 12 meeting in Chicago.

The Senate met at a special meeting Sept. 25 to elect a slate of nominees representing faculty members, students, deans/directors, academic professionals and staff employees.

Those nominations resulted in the election of five faculty representatives, two students and one representative each of a dean or director, academic professional and staff employee. Thomas Ulen, professor of law and Campus Honors faculty, was elected by the Senate as chair of the committee.

In addition, on Oct. 2, the Senate Council elected three faculty representatives from the slate of faculty nominees, bringing the number of faculty representatives to eight.

The faculty members elected to serve on the search committee:
James D. Anderson, head of the educational policy studies department; William Greenough, professor of psychology and holder of the Swanlund Endowed Chair in psychology; Achsah Guibbory, professor of English and of religious studies; Nancy O’Brien, educational and social sciences librarian and professor of library administration; Mark Leff, professor of history, Campus Honors faculty; David Daniel, professor and head of the department of civil and environmental engineering; Douglas Parrett, professor of animal sciences; and Josef Lakonishok, W.G. Karnes professor of mergers and acquisitions in the department of finance.

The undergraduate student selected to serve on the search committee is Wade Ackerman, liberal arts and sciences. The representative for graduate students is Billy Vaughn. The student senators nominated and elected their own representatives.

Kathleen F. Conlin, dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, was elected to represent deans and directors. Also, senators elected Deborah Lee, assistant head, crop sciences, and chair of the Professional Advisory Committee, to represent academic professionals. Christa Pritchard, an administrative secretary in the chancellor’s office will represent staff employees.

Chancellor Michael Aiken announced in August that he will
retire on his 69th birthday in August 2001.