97-07-11 Trustees Outline Search & Transition

BOARD CHAIR ALEX SHUMATE OUTLINES SEARCH AND TRANSITION

     COLUMBUS -- In two actions to “maintain momentum and focus
on the university’s strategic priorities,” Board of Trustees
Chair Alex Shumate today (7/11) named both a transition team and
a committee to search for a new president of The Ohio State
University.

     E. Gordon Gee recently announced that he will leave Ohio
State to become president of Brown University on Jan. 1, 1998.
Today, Shumate established a presidential search committee, which
he will chair himself, and a six-person transition team headed by
Provost Richard Sisson.  Sisson is the university’s chief
academic officer and its senior vice president.

     The committee to search for Ohio State’s new president will
have broad representation from all university constituencies:
four trustees, five faculty, two students, two deans, two non-
teaching staff, one vice president, and one representative of the
Alumni Association.  The committee’s charge, Shumate announced,
will include developing a list of candidates, verifying
qualifications and interviewing candidates, and making
recommendation of one or more candidates to the board during the
first quarter of the 1998 calendar year.

     Trustees on the search committee will be George Skestos,
James Patterson, and Tamala Longaberger.  The other members will
be recommended by various governing or administrative bodies.

     “The transition team will provide advice and counsel to the
Board of Trustees and President Gee that will allow us to keep
moving forward,” Shumate said.  Its members, in addition to
Sisson, are: Ted Celeste, vice chair of the Board of Trustees;
William Napier, secretary to the Board of Trustees and executive
assistant to the president; William Shkurti, vice president for
finance; David Williams II, vice president for student affairs;
and Nancy Zimpher, dean of the College of Education and executive
dean of the professional colleges.

     “We are looking forward to a clear, smooth transition,”
Shumate said.  “I have the utmost confidence that Ohio State will
find the right leader for the university at this time in its
history.”

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Contact:
Malcolm Baroway, University Communications, (614) 292-6895.


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