To: All Faculty <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "John Weaver" <jhweaver@uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: c-foran@uiuc.edu

 Subject: MASSMAIL - Search for Vice Chancellor for Research

To:  All Faculty

From:	 Vice Chancellor for Research Search Committee 
	(John Weaver, chair; Ilesanmi Adesida; May Berenbaum; Lizanne 
	DeStefano; Abbie Griffin; Lew Hopkins; Gary Jackson; Suvir Kaul; Art 
	Kramer; Harris Lewin; Cameron McCarthy; Anne Nye; Jennifer Quirk; Mary 
	Ann Lila Smith; Jonathan Sweedler; Deborah Thurston; Arlene Torres)

A search is under way for the position of Vice Chancellor for Research at 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  An announcement of the 
position is included with this note.  The Search Committee is now actively 
identifying individuals who warrant consideration for this position and 
invites both nominations and applications.  We welcome any suggestions you 
may wish to offer regarding the search and encourage you to bring this 
opportunity to the attention of colleagues who are, or may know of, strong 
prospects for the position.

The position of Vice Chancellor for Research on the Urbana-Champaign campus 
of the University of Illinois plays an important leadership role in 
fostering research on this campus.  As chair of the Campus Research Board, 
and as the representative of the University in many national and 
international organizations related to research, the Vice Chancellor 
represents the needs and points of view of a premier research university.  
In addition, the Vice Chancellor for Research serves as facilitator and 
initiator for important new ventures related to research and scholarship, 
including oversight and leadership for intellectual property and technology 
transfer and commercialization for research.

Communication with the Search Committee may be addressed as indicated in the 
announcement.



Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Vice Chancellor 
for Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The Vice 
Chancellor for Research, one of four Vice Chancellors reporting to the 
Chancellor, is the senior campus officer with responsibility for advancing 
research on the Urbana-Champaign campus.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a comprehensive land-grant 
institution founded in 1867,  is one of the nation's leading research 
universities.  The campus has 16 colleges, schools and institutes, an 
enrollment of nearly 37,000 students, and nearly 2,000 FTE faculty.  The 
campus research portfolio, supported by over $260 million expended annually 
on externally-funded grants and contracts, includes the professions, the 
arts and the humanities, engineering and the agricultural sciences, the 
physical and life sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences. The 
campus places a high value on interdisciplinary research,  as evidenced, for 
example,  by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the 
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Materials Research 
Laboratory, the Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, the 
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, the Center for Advanced 
Study, and the newly established Post-Genomics Institute.

The Vice Chancellor works closely with the Chancellor and Provost (Vice 

Chancellor for Academic Affairs) in the development and implementation of 
policies and practices relating to all aspects of the research mission of 
the campus; interacts with public and private sources of support for 
university research activities; administers federal and state regulations 
relating to research activities, including compliance with policies relating 
to the use of human subjects in research, conflicts of commitments and 
interest, and the use of animals in research; and, working with the Vice 
President for Economic Development and Corporate Relations, formulates, 
implements, and administers policies regarding patents, copyrights, and 
intellectual property rights, and oversees policies and mechanisms that 
encourage the commercialization of research. The Vice Chancellor for 
Research also works closely with the University's Vice President for 
Economic Development and Corporate Relations and with the Chancellor on 
matters related to business and economic development, the University's 
Research Park and the Office of Technology Management.

A major requirement of the position is the candidate's capability to work 
with administrative units and faculty to maintain and strengthen the 
university as a leading research center of the highest quality.  Candidates 
must have a strong record of accomplishment in research and scholarship 
appropriate to a tenured faculty appointment at the level of full professor 
in an academic unit.  He/she should have experience in assisting faculty 
with the advancement of their research, an appreciation for the diverse 
forms and circumstances of research and scholarship conducted at a 
comprehensive research university, and an informed perspective on 
intellectual property and technology transfer and commercialization in the 
research university.  The ideal candidate would have substantial research-
related experience with the private sector.  Candidates also should have 
demonstrated leadership and administrative ability, and the ability to work 
with agencies that support research.

Salary open. Starting date negotiable. To be assured of full consideration, 
nominations or applications (including resume) should be submitted by 
December 3, 2001.  The search will continue until the position is filled. 
Nominations and/or letters of application should be submitted to: 

Professor John H. Weaver, Chair
Search Committee for Vice Chancellor for Research 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
c/o Office of the Chancellor 
Swanlund Administration Building 
601 East John Street 
Champaign, Illinois 61820 
Telephone: (217) 333-6394 
FAX: (217) 244-4121 
email: chancellor@uiuc.edu 

We are being assisted in this search by Jerry H. Baker of Baker-Parker, 
Inc., who can be contacted at (770) 804-1996 (phone), (770) 804-1917 (fax) 
jbaker@bpasearch.com(email).

The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity 
Employer.
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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