« Hamline prepares for bird flu | Main | Playoff Bound »
February 21, 2006
Search for CLA dean garners large candidate pool
With applications long since due, the search committee for the Dean of the CLA has compiled a long list of applicants it hopes to narrow in the coming weeks.
“Response to the advertisement has been very good,” Professor Samuel Imbo, a committee member, said.
From that group, Imbo said, the committee is working on “reducing the pool of applicants.” In the past, Imbo said, five or six candidates have been brought to campus for interviews.
He declined to say how many people have submitted applications and how small the field would be reduced to. Imbo, along with the other members of the committee, has signed a confidentiality agreement which prevents him from commenting on many issues surrounding the search.
The committee is comprised of CLA faculty members Veena Deo, Pres Martin, Aida Audeh, and Karen Vogel. Outside of the CLA, law professor Carol Swanson, Director of Human Resources Dixie Lindslay, Dean of Students Alan Sickbert, Dean of the Graduate School of Liberal Studies Mary Rockcastle, Board of Trustees member Rodney Jordan and CLA student Matrika Bailey-Turner. The committee is chaired by Dwight Watson.
The members of the search committee were selected according to the procedure set forth by the CLA Policies and Procedures Manual.
The manual says two positions, an officer of the Cabinet and a trustee, in addition to the committee chair, are to be selected by the provost. (The provost position, previously held by Jerry Griener, became Vice President of Academic Affairs when Garvin Davenport, who currently holds that vice presidential position and current CLA dean concurrently, took over the spot.)
Imbo said the committee has a timeline; however, he declined to comment on it. He did say that the position is slated to begin July 1.
Imbo said the numerous administrative changes in recent years “create an opening for the college to take a new direction.”
There remains the possibility that the committee will not select a candidate from the current pool.
“If we feel our candidate pool was unsatisfactory, we could work with [consultant] Bill Funk of Korn/Ferry.” Imbo said this wasn’t likely though.
Funk of Korn/Ferry International, a world-wide executive search company, was unavailable for comment on his potential involvement in the search.
He is currently managing the search for the Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs for the university. Previously, Funk managed the presidential search that chose Linda Hanson as Larry Osnes’s sucessor.
Posted by dwright at February 21, 2006 12:06 PM
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)