Wenner to replace Williams on search advisory committee

Trustee and Presidential Search chair Donna K. Brooks has appointed Wendy Wenner, dean of the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, to the Presidential Search Advisory Committee (PSAC), to replacing H. James Williams, dean of the Seidman College of Business.

The appointment is effective immediately and was announced by Brooks at the February 20 meeting of the PSAC with the University Academic Senate.

"James advised me that the re-accreditation review now underway at the SCB had created too many conflicts with the meeting schedule of the search advisory committee," Brooks said. "For this reason, James thought it best that he be replaced on the PSAC."

Brooks said Wenner's experience and long service at Grand Valley will be "great assets to the PSAC."

Wenner joined the university in 1988 as a faculty member in English. She entered university administration in 1999 as assistant vice president for Academic Affairs and was appointed dean of COIS in 2004.

There are two more campus forums scheduled on Tuesday, February 28: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center, Pere Marquette Room; and 9-10:30 p.m. in the Alumni House. Comments can be sent to the search committee by accessing the Presidential Search Web site, www.gvsu.edu/presidentialsearch.