The GVSU Board of Control has appointed a 14-member committee to conduct a nationwide search for three finalists for the position of University President. The names of the unranked candidates would be presented to the Board by March 15, 2001.
The Board then will hold public, on-campus interviews and name a successor to President Arend D. Lubbers prior to his retirement next summer.
The members of the Presidential Search Committee are: Board members Dorothy A. Johnson, chair of the search committee, Donnalee Holton, Jos¿ Infante, and Jessie Dalman; faculty and staff Patrick Thorpe, Biology, Margaret Sellers Walker, Public and Nonprofit Administration, Beverly Seley, Art and Design, Paul Stephenson, Mathematics and Statistics, H. Bart Merkle, Dean of Students, Rodney Mulder, Social Work, and Sandra Jennings, Athletics; and representing alumni, students and the public are Frances Brown, Benjamin Witt, and David C. Frey.
The GVSU community will receive a letter from Johnson that will invite students, faculty, staff, and community members to participate in the search process. The first meeting of the search committee takes place Monday, October 9, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Alumni House on the Allendale campus. This meeting is open to the public.
Another option for participation is to attend a session with the consultant, hired by the Board of Control to help guide the selection process. Sessions are set for Tuesday, October 10, at the following times: for staff ¿ 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the Grand River Room of the Kirkhof Center; for students ¿ 10:45-11:45 a.m. in the Grand River Room of the Kirkhof Center; for faculty ¿ 12 noon-1 p.m. in the Grand River Room of the Kirkhof Center; and for the community ¿ 2-3 p.m. in the University Club, DeVos Center.
Strategic Planning Process also Under Wa
yTo help guide the new administration as it leads Grand Valley into the 21st Century, Patricia Oldt, assistant to the president for equity and planning, has begun a strategic planning project that provides the university community with another opportunity to help design the institution's future.
This week, faculty and staff members will also receive a card that details the first round of times and places for the planning sessions. Input is also being gathered on the Web. The address for the Designing Our Preferred Future project is ucweb.gvsu.edu/future/
Oldt said she plans to complete the information-gathering phase of the planning project by Thanksgiving. The data would then be analyzed and shared with the Presidential Search Committee for its consideration early next year, along with the Board of Control and a yet-to-be-named university planning committee.
