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President Robert Easter
and Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares meet with faculty.
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SELECTION
OF a new University
President has sped up, with hopes that President Robert Easter’s
successor will be chosen before Thanksgiving. The administration wants the next
President to participate in the search for a new UIC Chancellor to succeed Dr.
Paula Allen-Meares, who plans on leaving her post in January of 2015.
UNIVERSITY TRUSTEE Pam Strobel, who co-chairs the University of
Illinois Presidential Search Committee, told the News-Gazette of Springfield, IL, on July 12 that the University
Board of Trustees decided the President’s search should be “on a parallel path”
so the President can be involved with picking the Chancellor.
URBANA PHYSICS Professor Doug Beck is the other Co-Chair. Kostas Yfantis, Manager of Teaching and Learning Services with
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services at the Urbana campus,
is the Academic Professional on the committee.
THE NEWS-GAZETTE article
also reported that President Easter said that the growth of UIC will be a major
factor for the next President, and he mentioned a possible move to make UIC a
member of the prestigious Association of American Universities.
THE PRESIDENTIAL search committee is scheduled to meet on Wednesday, Aug. 20, and
Wednesday, Sept. 17.
THE PRESIDENTIAL search informational website is at http://www.bot.uillinois.edu/presidentialsearch.
It provides links to the position announcement, information on job duties and
qualifications, background on the 19-member search committee, news releases and
media coverage, the committee’s meeting schedule, and more.
MRINALINI RAO, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
and former Vice President for Academic Affairs, chairs the UIC Chancellor’s
Search Committee.
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