To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Donald Uchtmann" <vpaasearch@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: vpaasearch@uillinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Nominees for Vice President for Academic Affairs


Dear University of Illinois Colleagues:


We seek your help in identifying nominees for the position of Vice 
President for Academic Affairs. The VPAA position is among the most 
important administrative positions at the University of Illinois.  Dr. 
Sylvia Manning provided tremendous university leadership in this position 
before accepting the responsibilities of Chancellor at UIC.  The VPAA 
position is currently held by Dr. Chester Gardner, Vice President for 
Economic Development and Corporate Relations, on an interim basis. The 
position announcement has been placed in prominent national, regional and 
local publications intended to reach a diverse set of qualified potential 
candidates, and it is also at the bottom of this e-mail.


Our Search Committee is hard at work on the tremendously important task of
finding the next Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of
Illinois.  We also have retained the services of Bill Funk of Korn Ferry
International, a very successful academic executive search firm, to help 
us. We already have a number of promising nominations and candidates.
Nevertheless, we would like to enlist your help in identifying nominees for
Vice President for Academic Affairs.  Please give careful thought to those
you know who might serve the University of Illinois in this important role.
If you would like to nominate someone, you may do so by writing to me by
e-mail (vpaasearch@uillinois.edu).


The Search Committee looks forward to hearing from you.


Sincerely,


Donald Uchtmann
On behalf of the Search Committee:


Janice Bahr, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor,
Physiology, UIUC
Abigail Broga, Assistant Dean of Students, UIUC
Glen Hahn Cope, Dean, College of Public Affairs and Administration and
Professor, Public Administration, UIS
Jesse Delia, Dean and Professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC 
Clark Hulse, Interim Dean, Graduate College and Professor, English and Art
History, UIC
Elliot Kaufman, Associate Professor and Interim Head, Molecular Genetics,
UIC
Bonnie Moe, Associate Professor, Accountancy, UIS
Warren Palmer, Acting Dean, Health and Human Development Sciences and
Professor, Kinesiology, UIC
Robert Todd, Associate Vice President for Administration and Human 
Resources
Donald Uchtmann, Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics, UIUC


University of Illinois


Vice President for Academic Affairs



The University of Illinois invites nominations and applications for the
position of Vice President for Academic Affairs. 


The University of Illinois <http://www.uillinois.edu/>, an international
leader in higher education, includes three distinctive campuses with
combined student enrollments of 66,000.  The campuses at Chicago (25,000
students) and Urbana-Champaign (37,000 students) are classified as
Doctoral/Research Universities - Extensive.  The newest campus, located in
the State capital of Springfield (4,000 students) is classified as a
Master's Comprehensive University I.


The Vice President for Academic Affairs is the senior academic officer of
the University and reports directly to the President. The Vice President 
for Academic Affairs advises the President on matters of educational 
policy, academic programs, academic personnel actions, and capital and 
operating budget development.  The Vice President is responsible for the 
overall coordination of planning and budgeting at the University and 
represents the interests of the University to the Illinois Board of Higher 
Education on matters pertaining to academic programs and priorities.  Among 
other duties, the Vice President exercises direct line authority over 
certain University-wide units and programs, including the Institute of 
Government and Public Affairs, the University Office for Academic Policy 
Analysis, the University of Illinois Press, UI Online, the President's 
Leadership Program, and the University Office of Outreach and Public 
Service. 


Progressively responsible administrative experience with academic policies,
personnel, and budgets is required for the position.  An earned doctorate 
or equivalent and a record of teaching and scholarship that would merit
appointment as a tenured professor at the University of Illinois are
required.  The ability to understand and work effectively in a complex
academic culture influenced by multiple campuses, a land-grant university
tradition and a medical school, is also required.


To insure full consideration, nominations and applications (that include a
comprehensive current resume) should be sent by February 15, 2001 to:


Professor Donald L. Uchtmann, Chair
Search Committee, University of Illinois
University Senates Conference Office
807 S. Wright, Suite 370
Champaign, Illinois  61820
Telephone:  (217) 333-5227
E-mail:  vpaasearch@uillinois.edu


The appointment of the new Vice President is anticipated to take effect on
or before August 1, 2001. 
        
The University of Illinois is an affirmative action/equal opportunity
institution.This mailing approved by:
The Office of the President

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