Yeah, that won't help. Is there a schedule set for the Presidential search?.......search firm chosen....profile written by the firm?...applications/interviews.....?
@realist77 Yes. ValpoPal posted this back on Apri 1.
So here we are on April 1, and so far there has been no update from VU; the search could begin later in April and still meet the announced kick off.
I can report that the Search Committee was named last week—5 Board members (including chair Jon Steinbrecher), 2 faculty, 1 staff representative, and 1 alumni representative). They have been tasked during April to find a firm to assist with the search. The June 1 deadline you mention seems to be possible, but as you note, the timing also could be "strategic": "if they wait until the semester is over, campus visits will have far less interaction with students, and probably less interaction with faculty."
See the string on Padilla's retiring for more discussion on the search process. .
Thanks. For the 5 board members Jon S. and Winkler are two of them I think as new chair and vice-chair.. Have the other 3 been announced anywhere?
With Jon S. in the chair role I am guessing they will look for other facets and backgrounds from the other three.
Thanks. For the 5 board members Jon S. and Winkler are two of them I think as new chair and vice-chair.. Have the other 3 been announced anywhere?
Search Committee
Board Members: Jon Steinbrecher (Chair), Julie Winkler (Vice Chair), Colette Irwin-Knott, Sara Manske, Paul Strasen
Faculty Members: Professors Sara Gundersen and Rami Musleh
Staff Representative: Carolyn Simpson
Alumni Representative: Cornell Boggs
Thanks. For the 5 board members Jon S. and Winkler are two of them I think as new chair and vice-chair.. Have the other 3 been announced anywhere?
Search Committee
Board Members: Jon Steinbrecher (Chair), Julie Winkler (Vice Chair), Colette Irwin-Knott, Sara Manske, Paul Strasen
Faculty Members: Professors Sara Gundersen and Rami Musleh
Staff Representative: Carolyn Simpson
Alumni Representative: Cornell Boggs
Dr. Gundersen wrote a letter of recommendation for me a few years back. I had her for 2 economics courses. If she is as good at helping with the search as she is as a professor, then we are in good hands.
Collette Irwin-Notte? The interim pres. who changed the mascot? There you go....
" Dr. Gundersen wrote a letter of recommendation for me a few years back. I had her for 2 economics courses. If she is as good at helping with the search as she is as a professor, then we are in good hands."
Agreed! Dr. Gunderson is fantastic and super solid. Smart as a whip, very realistic and pragmatic, pretty slow to get drawn into emotional campus politics, and also very ethical. Gunderson and the econ dept actually demurred to hire in recent years (despite desperately needing relief amid very high teaching loads, so essentially against their own personal labor interests) because they didn't want to lure some poor PhD sap into a 'tenure-track' position amid all the serial cuts, only then to turn around and cut them in a year or few with all the dim trajectories of the university budget. It is unusual to see a department with more self-control than the college/dean/provost level approving hires willy nilly, since most depts under stress would just take the hiring approval and run with it. Gunderson is an awesome teacher, and really the ideal combination of brains, decisiveness for the larger good, moral conscience, and financial prudence. If this were the old days where uni presidents were drawn from the academics, honestly, I'd trust her as uni president more than most the 'higher ed admin professional' hacks out there. Glad she's on the selection committee!
