To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "President Michael J. Hogan" <presmike@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: presmike@uillinois.edu
 Subject: Vice President/Chancellor search process begins

To members of the Urbana-Champaign campus community,

I am pleased to announce the formation this week of a campus committee to 
lead the search for a new permanent vice president and chancellor for the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the intention of having 
the new chancellor on board for the start of the next academic year.

I commend the campus Senate for assembling the search committee at this 
busy time of the year and thank physics Professor Douglas Beck for 
accepting my request that he serve as committee chair. Dr. Beck is an 
outstanding member of the faculty respected by his colleagues and 
students, and I am confident Doug will serve the chancellor search with 
equal verve.

The other members of the committee include: 

Faculty 
James D. Anderson, Educational Policy Studies 
Nicholas Burbules, Educational Policy Studies 
Andreas Cangellaris, Electrical/Computer Engineering 
Kim Graber, Kinesiology and Community Health 
Anne D. Hedeman, Art and Design 
William Maher, University Library/Archives 
Robert Warrior, American Indian Studies 
Matthew Wheeler, Animal Sciences

Academic Professional 
Tim Barnes, International Programs and Studies

Staff 
Debbie Kemphues, Office of the Provost and VCAA

Students 
Amy Allen, Engineering
Carey Hawkins Ash, Grad. (Law/Education) 
David Olsen, Business

Assisting the committee will be Jami Painter, Director of Employee 
Relations and Human Resources, and the executive search firm of Isaacson, 
Miller. The firm is experienced in executive searches for major 
universities and colleges, including the University of Illinois, an 
important asset in this search.

A website for the Urbana-Champaign campus vice president/chancellor search 
has been established and can be found at 
http://uillinois.edu/UrbanaChancellorSearch/. (The site will be live early 
on Dec. 17 but does not yet contain complete information.) In addition to 
links to core information about the campus and search information, the 
website will include a link to a Facebook page and a web form to accept 
input from our varied constituencies. 

Because receiving input from you is essential, the committee also will 
host town hall-style meetings at which our faculty, students, staff and 
others may voice their suggestions and opinions. 
  
As I am doing with the search for the vice president and chancellor of the 
UIS campus, I will meet regularly with the search committee, beginning as 
soon as next week, and will keep the University's Board of Trustees 
informed. I will interview the finalists, and I will make a recommendation 
to the trustees next spring. Again, my goal, shared by the Board and the 
members of the search committee, is to have an exceptional, experienced 
leader in higher education as the next vice president and chancellor of 
the Urbana campus in time for the fall 2011 semester.

The selection of the new chancellor for Urbana is potentially the most 
important undertaking for this campus that members of the search committee 
and I will have during our association with the University of Illinois. We 
look forward to the challenge and to working with all of you.

Sincerely,

Mike Hogan
President


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