PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 20, No. 13, Feb. 1, 2001

Chancellor search progressing for Urbana-Champaign campus

Sabryna Cornish, UIC News Bureau Staff Writer

Since November, the search committee to help find a replacement for Urbana Chancellor Michael Aiken, who is retiring Aug. 20, has met five times, professor Thomas Ulen, reported at the UI Board of Trustees meeting Jan. 18 in Chicago.

Advertising for the position has been circulated nationally and the committee has received some 80 applications and nominations, he said. The deadline to express interest in the position was Jan. 15.

"The committee will begin to look at the pool of candidates," Ulen said at the meeting.

The committee has been meeting with university and community leaders to assess their idea of what the chancellor’s role is.

The next step for the committee is to develop a position criteria and needs statement, Ulen said.

The committee was hoping to send the statement to the board last week.

Ulen said the committee is aiming to conduct final interviews for the position about the first week of March and submit a list of names to university President James J. Stukel by the end of March.