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| Search committee
to find new chancellor |
by Jessica Hines
Associate Editor
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UNC
President Broad to charge committee today
The search for a new chancellor began July
18 with the appointment of a search committee chairperson.
Board of Trustees chair Glenn W. Wilcox Sr. selected fellow
trustee Robert G. Fox Jr. to lead the 16-person committee
representing faculty, staff, students, alumni and the community.
Fox said the search committee would recommend three finalists
to University of North Carolina President Molly C. Broad.
Broad will then recommend one candidate to the UNC Board of
Governors, according to a News Bureau press release.
The committee’s first open meeting is scheduled today
at 3 p.m. in the Broyhill Room of the Broyhill Inn & Conference
Center. At the meeting, Broad will give the committee its
charge.
Fox, an Appalachian State University alumnus, is the executive
vice president of First Charter Bank in Charlotte and chairman-elect
of the Board of Trustees.
Included on the committee are faculty representatives Nancy
Schneeloch-Bingham, associate professor in the School of Music;
Randy K. Edwards, professor and chairperson of the department
of accounting; Paul H. Gates Jr., associate professor in the
department of communication and chairperson of Faculty Senate;
and Dru A. Henson, professor and assistant chairperson of
the department of biology.
Student Government Association President Rachel A. Johnson
will represent students.
She said she expects the process to take six to eight months
before the committee can make recommendations.
Despite being the only student voice on the committee, Johnson
said she is confident the committee will listen to student
input.
“I wish there could be more of a student voice, instead
of just one. That would make me feel a lot better about it,”
she said. “Any input that I get I’ll put in there
from the student point of view.”
Johnson said prospective candidates will be handled in a similar
process to the provost search.
“Once it comes to bringing people here, the students
will be able to meet them,” she said. The students will
then be able to meet with candidates and ask questions.
Terri L. Miller, president of the Appalachian Staff Council,
will represent staff members.
Representing alumni will be Ryan L. Bolick, Jeannine Underdown
Collins, Jamie E. Harris and Mark E. Trivette.
Board of Trustees representatives include Fox, Wilcox, James
D. Branch, James M. Deal Jr. and Reba S. Moretz.
Brent B. Kincaid will represent the community-at-large.
The committee will find a replacement for Dr. Francis T. Borkowski,
who retired from his position as chancellor last month. Borkowski
plans to return to the School of Music as a professor following
a year sabbatical.
Dr. Harvey R. Durham currently serves as interim chancellor.
“It will certainly be a demanding task as we search for
the most appropriate individual to lead Appalachian State
University in the decade ahead, and we welcome recommendations
of people attributes or other ideas concerning Appalachian’s
next chancellor,” search committee vice chair Wilcox
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