UF Presidential Search schedule to end Oct 15th!

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<p>Looks like we'll know who the next President will be by mid October. If you're a student, you may want to go to one of the assemblies and met the finalist. If you do, ask her/him who they would want as a replacement for Coach Muschamp and how quickly can he/she make it happen?! Clearly this is the most important question facing our new president!!! :)</p>

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We are planning to begin the selection process on Monday, October 13, 2014, and expect it to end on Wednesday, October 15th: </p>

<p>Day 1: The search committee reviews every application and decides whom to interview in Gainesville, based on their qualifications under the search criteria. </p>

<p>Day 2: The search committee interviews those applicants invited to Gainesville; determines those who are most highly qualified under the search criteria; and refers them to the Board of Trustees for interviews. </p>

<p>Part Day 2/Day 3: Each finalist appears at a campus/community assembly to meet students, staff and other interested parties, as well as a separate faculty assembly. These assemblies will be open on campus and covered by closed-circuit TV at various locales around campus and around the state of Florida. (These assemblies will be accessible to the campus community and Florida stakeholders but will not be accessible to the home campuses of the finalists outside of Florida.) </p>

<p>Day 3: The Board of Trustees interviews each finalist and elects the next UF president. The president-elect is then ratified by the Board of Governors at its next meeting.

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<p>Update (10/13/2014):</p>

<p>The finale three candidates are:</p>

<p>• Kent Fuchs, provost of Cornell University,</p>

<p>• David McLaughlin, Provost of New York University,</p>

<p>• and Sibrandes Poppema, president of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.</p>

<p>Interviews are on Tuesday and they should make an announcement on Wednesday.</p>

<p>The following link gives more details on each candidate:</p>

<p><a href=“http://presidentsearch.ufl.edu/applicants/”>http://presidentsearch.ufl.edu/applicants/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Some interesting background.</p>

<p>It was announced on Oct 1, that Cornell University’s next president will be Elizabeth Garrett, the current provost at the University of Southern California. Garrett will become Cornell’s first female leader on July 1. The outgoing Cornell president, David Skorton, is leaving next summer to become the head of the Smithsonian Institution.</p>

<p>This is likely why Kent Fuchs is available (as he didn’t get the Cornell job). </p>

<p>At NYU, the current president (John Sexton) has announced that he will step down at the end of 2016 (2 more years). This may be why David McLaughlin is looking at UF now, and not planning on waiting two more years for his shot at NYU. Then again, the risk with Dr. McLaughlin would be the possibility of losing him to NYU in 2 years.</p>

<p>I got nothing on Dr. Sibrandes Poppema. However, check out “The Essential Role Universities can Play in Cultural Diplomacy” lecture that he did, it’s available on YouTube.</p>

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<p>I haven’t really researched them but very happy they are all from academia. May be a simplistic view but it tells you the priorities versus FSU’s selection.</p>

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<p>UF made selecting an academic a priority, in a way as a response to FSU “troubled” search. (at the time I thought UF’s board was taking a poke at FSU’s board…)</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.ocala.com/article/GS/20140523/ARTICLES/140529809/1118/ARTICLES?Title=Trustees-adjust-criteria-for-UF-presidential-search&tc=ar”>http://www.ocala.com/article/GS/20140523/ARTICLES/140529809/1118/ARTICLES?Title=Trustees-adjust-criteria-for-UF-presidential-search&tc=ar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Update:</p>

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