SEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE NAMED FOR NEW
CHIEF OF UH, UH SYSTEM
Board of Regents Chairman Leroy Hermes Heads Group
Looking for Next Chancellor/President
HOUSTON, May 9, 2007 – Leroy Hermes, chairman of the University
of Houston System Board of Regents, announced today the formation
of a Search Advisory Committee to undertake the national search
for a new chancellor of the UH System and president of the University
of Houston. The search follows the decision by Chancellor/President
Jay Gogue to accept the presidency at his alma mater, Auburn University.
“This is one of the most important roles of the Board of
Regents: identifying and recruiting a visionary leader to take the
UH System and the University of Houston into their rightful place
among the foremost urban university systems and national research
universities. The Search Advisory Committee will be invaluable in
helping to bring outstanding candidates to the Board,” Hermes
said.
“We hope to complete our search during the fall semester
with an ambitious goal of bringing the new Chancellor/President
on board by January 2008,” he said.
Hermes will head the Search Advisory Committee with Regent Mike
Cemo serving as vice chair. Regents Lynden Rose and Jim Wise also
will serve on the committee. Max Castillo, UH-Downtown president;
Suzanne LaBrecque, UH-Victoria provost and vice president for academic
affairs; and Chloe Diepenbrock, associate professor of human sciences
and humanities and UH-Clear Lake Faculty Senate president, will
represent the UH System universities. Michael Rierson, vice chancellor/vice
president for university advancement, represents the administration,
and Ted Estess, dean of the UH Honors College, will represent the
deans.
Faculty representation on the advisory committee includes Joseph
Kotarba, professor of sociology and UH Faculty Senate president;
Sam Quintero, UH associate professor of optometry; David Francis,
UH professor of psychology; and Ramanan Krishnamoorti, UH professor
of chemical engineering; and Sandra Guerra Thompson, UH professor
of law. Staff members are represented by Staff Council Chair Carol
Barr, who is the business manager for the UH Department of English.
Samuel Dike, vice president of the UH Student Government Association,
is the student representative to the committee.
Community representation includes former UH System regents Liz
Ghrist, chair of the Houston Alumni Organization board of directors,
and Beth Robertson, president of Cockspur, Inc., along with Melvyn
Wolff, chairman of the Board of Star Furniture, and Dr. H. Dirk
Sostman, chief academic officer and chief medical officer of The
Methodist Hospital.
The Search Advisory Committee will be assisted by Dona G. Hamilton,
vice chancellor and vice president for legal affairs and general
counsel, and by David P. Bell, assistant vicec chancellor and assistant
vice president for academic and faculty affairs. Peggy Cervenka
and Gerry Mathisen will serve as executive administrator and assistant
administrator, respectively, for the Search Advisory Committee.
Those interested in submitting recommendations for the chancellor/president
position to the Search Advisory Committee should contact search
consultant R. William Funk by e-mail at krisha.creal@rwilliamfunk.com.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan
higher education system, encompassing four universities and two
multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University
of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive
research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year
undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate
programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University
of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level
institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land in Fort
Bend and the UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System
includes KUHF-FM, Houston’s National Public Radio and classical
radio station, and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational
television station.
For more information about UH visit the universitys Newsroom
at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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