UF Presidential Search 2002-2003

• UF Presidential Search Site (Board of Trustees): this site is the place to find the latest news, list of nominees and information about them.

• March 27, 2003: the Presidential Search Committee has its second meeting, finalizes the criteria, the position description, the advertisement, proposes an approach to campus interviews, discusses ways to reach out to stakeholders, and lists current nominees, individuals who have declined nominations, and those who are in the process of being contacted.

• March 20, 2003: Trustee Roland Daniels delivered an update on the Presidential Search to the Faculty Senate. He mentioned the consulting firm, A. T. Kearney, Inc., that had been hired to coordinate the search, spoke of the work of four subcommittees, and encouraged faculty to make nominations.

• February 20, 2003: Trustee Manny Fernandez reviewed his PowerPoint presentation for the Presidential Search Committee with the Faculty Senate after the morning meeting of that committee.

• February 20, 2003: First meeting of the Presidential Search Committee; faculty members on the committee are Cammy Abernathy, Professor, Materials Science Engineering, Nancy Mendenhall, Chair, Radiation Oncology, and Pierre Ramond, Distinguished Professor, Physics. Ramond was added to additional subcommittees at his request.

• January 10, 2003: Board of Trustees appoints Presidential Search Committee with 5 trustees, 4 faculty, 4 administators, 2 students (one a trustee), 4 other stakeholders. In addition, President Charles Young, and former President John Lombardi, former President and Chair of the UF Board of Trustees Marshall Criser will serve as advisors. The Presidential Search Committee will not start its work until after January 30.
• November 8, 2002: Faculty Senate Delegation meets with Presidential Search Planning Committee to discuss presidential criteria.

  We gave them the following documents:

  • Letter from past UF presidents on presidential qualifications
  • Presidential Searches at Peer Institutions

  The Presidential Search Planning Committee plans to make recommendations to the Board of Trustees on December 10-11.

• October 11, 2002: Presidential Search Planning Committee has its initial meeting.

  The members are the following trustees:

  • Manny Fernandez (chair): search firms, criteria
  • Carlos Alphonso: committee structure for the search
  • Dianna Morgan: communications strategy

  Faculty Senate Chair Jean Larson gave them the following document:

  • Faculty Senate Presidential Search White Paper (pdf)
    (approved April 12, 2001)

• September 5, 2002: President Young tells Board of Trustees that he plans to step down in the next 30 months, at a time that is best for UF.

Presidential Search Documents from 2000-2001

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