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8 Monday, January 24, 2000 Unveiling a List of Possible Chancellor Contenders CHANCELLOR ; From Page 1 announced he was a candidate in December. A Changing Field With the move away from home grown administrators, universities are increasingly turning to executive search firms to help them identify academia’s rising stars with a knack for administra tive duties. UNC’s Chancellor Search Committee consults with Heidrick and Struggles, a Chicago-based executive search firm. “For a university like Chapel Hill, we would launch a national search and con sult with our contact network as to who is ready for this sort of major leadership position,” Whitcomb said. “It would have to be someone who could handle the complexity of this sort of university, including dealing with the legislature. But above all, we try to find someone who will fit the university and speak its language.” The real change in the past four years has been the move away from administrators coming out of a strict aca demic mode, Whitcomb said. .Trendy picks for top administrative positions include company chief execu tive officers, foundation heads, lawyers and politicians, she added. Erskine Bowles, President Clinton’s former chief of staff and formerly one of the search committee’s top candidates, fits into this category. “We no longer just tap the adminis trative pipeline because the role of the university president is changing, and search committees are realizing they YOU ASKED FOR IT SO IT'S BACK PENNY DRAFTS TREEHOUSE EVERY TUESDAY 21 AND OLDER NEED ONLY APPLY Houu about you and me moseying down to dinner? nonstop -j service - ■ from - breakfast - Hk thru - \ caii Oft today ’ ’4.-' V ••. fo r spring pooo asm mi. 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Folks who thrive on the com plexity and openness of higher educa tion might get frustrated at a private school, while some private school administrators might not like answering to the legislature.” Public university administrators trav el in an almost visible network between major public research universities, sometimes called the public ivies. The natural choice for a public university president is another public university’s provost, Whitcomb said, but with con fidentiality, some public university pres idents might be convinced to switch jobs. Richard McCormick, reportedly a candidate in both the 1995 and the 1999 UNC chancellor searches, is now presi dent of the University of Washington, a public university arguably just as pres tigious as UNC. Ties to UNC, where he Naming Who Could Be Next was provost for three years, might per suade him to move back to the East Coast. University of lowa President Mary Sue Coleman is also a public university president with UNC ties who was a top choice on the search committee’s list, but she has told reporters she is not interested in the job. Her predecessor at the University of lowa, Hunter Rawiings, now president of Cornell University, was UNC’s top choice in the 1995 chancellor search. Top Secret When former UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin was being considered for the position, he was interviewed on campus along with the three other finalists, he said. There was no release of finalists’ names before the late Chancellor Michael Hooker was named to the post, however. Stevens said the search committee planned to have a closed search process even at the finalist level, but would change to a more open plan for inter views if candidates did not object. Leaders must tread warily on their home campuses while shopping for a new position, lest rumors of imminent departure provoke mistrust and resent ment. December’s events, when most of the candidates whose names were pub lished in the paper withdrew from the search, proved this true. “The last thing a candidate wants to do is let the board of trustees know that he or she is interested in other universe ties; that’s the kiss of death,” said David Partlett, chief of staff for the chancellor search office at Vanderbilt University. Nevertheless, word often inadver tently leaks out, especially at public uni versities. Hardin was president of Drew University in New Jersey when UNC was searching for a chancellor in 1986, and he said it took three requests from the University’s search firm before he "Study Abroad Can Change Your Live" Come and find out about UNC SUMMER SESSION IN MONTPELLIER FRANCE A Four-Week Program in French Language and Culture 1 INFORMATIONAL m MEETING | Where: Dey Hall, Room i 13, UNC-CH When: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:30-s:oopm Video of followed by discussion with last year's UNC Summer Session in Montpellier participants For more information please call (919) 962-0154 Web: http://www.unc.edu/deiits/mont Email: mont@unc.edu 'This program is perfectly designed for someone who can't go overseas lor an entire semester." flkJ A I m m If 4 ANY BURRITO OR QUESADILLA ANY TIME AFTER spm * I ■■E OFFER VAI.iD THROUGH 1/31/00 * BP1!i • I I r 960395 ' A v °* AT \ ■ open super late night until V ft*--,:- ■ always fresh, juicy, big and healthy (fOSIIIIC Q I where are we? i OiMtillil 5 ■ Chapel hill: right across the street wMIBMUII “ ■ from the varsity theatre at 128 r ■ frankfct street [at the end of the hall], I durham: on 9th street and perry AO [ street [across from brueggers], 286-1875. 1 sent a resume to the search committee. “1 didn’t think the search committee would ever lake a Duke graduate, and I didn’t want to jeopardize my position with my board of trustees, so I didn’t apply,” Hardin said. “Finally, the chief headhunter called me from Bermuda or somewhere, and 1 finally sent in my resume.” Hardin was interviewed confidential ly in New York before the four finalists were brought to campus. UNC chancellor search committees have often traveled to large East Coast cities to interview candidates in a more neutral and less public location than Chapel Hill. Both Charlotte and Washington, D.C., were the sites of the 1995 search committee’s off-campus interviews, said journalism Professor Chuck Stone. A secretary in South Building would make travel arrangements and hotel reservations under her name rather than the committee’s for additional secrecy, Stone said. The 1999 Chancellor Search Committee has been under a particular ly tight veil of secrecy, but w ith good reason. The search that led to Hooker’s hiring took nearly 18 months because a media leak of two finalists’ names, lowa’s Rawlings and the University of Georgia’s Charles Knapp, resulted in both candidates’ withdrawal from the race. N.C. state law, unlike laws in Florida, Minnesota and Texas, permit almost all of the committee’s business to take place behind closed doors. Stevens is the com mittee’s sole media spokesman. Despite similar precautions, however, UNC-system President Molly Broad’s, N.C. State Chancellor Marye Anne Fox’s and Hooker’s appointments were all reported in the media before an offi cial university announcement was made. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. Elson Floyd President, Western Michigan University By Cheri Mei.fi Assistant State & National Editor In the wake of conflicting news cov erage regarding UNC chancellor candi date Elson Floyd’s intentions to remain president of Western Michigan University, Floyd would neither confirm nor deny his withdrawal from UNC’s chancellor search. In December, The News & Observer and ’Hie Chapel Hill Herald ran stories naming Floyd as a potential candidate. Several days later, the newspapers printed a statement Floyd issued Dec. 10 regarding his contention for the chan cellorship. “1 am flattered to know*that my name has been mentioned as a potential candidate for the chancellorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” Floyd said in the statement. “It is my alma mater, and 1 hold a deep affec tion for that university community.” “However, I have every intention of remaining at Western Michigan University to continue the exciting work that we have begun here,” he said. “My 16 months at this great university has been a period of growth and tremen dous support from the board of trustees and from the entire university commu nity. “I intend to honor my commitment to WMU and look forward to being here for a very long time,” Floyd said. Despite conflicting stories in the Political Coitimunication in the U.K. and U.S. Study in London, England This six-week program explores the * merging worlds of consumer, political. and election campaign communications , in the U.K. and the U.S. and will study the strategies and communication tecli /UMMER 2000 n '9 ues essential for selling products and influencing public opinion. I BOSTON I UNIVERSITY 232 Ilav State Rd., sth Floor Boston, MA, 02215 617/353-9888 ahroud@bu.edu www.bu.edu/ahroud An equal opportunity, affirmative union institution GO AWAY! And spend the summer in Paris! i ■■C’ * * UNC-CH Students, Amy Bailey and Paul Miller, enjoy the sights of Paris. The UNC-CH Study Abroad Office, Resident Director Dr. Ed Costello, and UNC-CH graduate student in French Jennifer I atham invite students to GO AWAY and spend the summer of 2000 study ing in the City of Lights. Applications are due by February 15, 2000. Classes include an intensive French course taught at the Sorhonne, and a History of Paris course which incorporates excursions con cerning French culture and civilization. Requirements are successful completion of two semesters of college-level French. Students will visit the major sites of Paris, plus the chateaux of Fontainebleau and Vaux-le-Vicomte, plus Chambord and Chenonceau in the Loire Valley. Students will also have the opportu nity to attend the ballet La Sylphide at the Opera Gamier, and Don Giovanni at the Opera Bastille. - NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED - The program is open to sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students in good standing at all accredited US institutions of higher education. For further information, contact the UNC-CH Study Abroad Office at (919) 962-7001, send an email to abroad@unc.edu, or consult our website at http://www.unc.edu/depts/abroad Fall and Spring semester options are also available. Application deadline for Summer 2000 is Feb. 15,2000 Slip Daily Sar Hrri N&O and Herald, regarding whether or not Floyd was still in contention for chancellorship, when a Daily Tar Heel reporter asked him to comment on his intentions to run, Floyd said, “1 need to let my statement stand.” Floyd, a Henderson native, has three UNC degrees and 13 years of adminis trative experienced the University. After graduating from UNC with a bachelor of arts degree in political sci ence and speech, a master’s degree ip adult education and a doctorate of phi losophy in higher and adult education, Floyd became the University’s assistant dean of student life and judicial pro grams officer in 1978. From 1978 until 1987, he served in the following positions at UNC: assis tant dean for the General College and the College of Arts and Sciences and the assistant dean for academic services. He also served the UNC system from 1988 until 1990 as assistant vice president, helping develop policy in stu dent and academic affairs for the 16 UNC campuses. He worked in several other higher education posts before returning to Chapel Hill in 1995 as executive vice chancellor. During his tenure, the University often depended on Floyd to serve as a representative, dealing with controver sial issues that faced the University. He implemented the Employee Forum to give faculty and staff a stronger voice on campus. He also led the effort to clean up the campus after Hurricane Fran in 1996 and helped develop the plan for the Carolina Computing Initiative. Because of his ties to UNC, Floyd's name almost immediately surfaced in University circles as a strong and obvi ous contender for the post. Roy Carroll, senior vice president for academic affairs, who worked closelv with Floyd in the University’s General Administration, said Floyd had a deep commitment to student welfare. Carroll said, “Fie is a bright, hard working individual who is committed to; higher education and the students.”
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