To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Professor/Chair Doug Beck" <dhbeck@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: dhbeck@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Public Forum: Vice President/Chancellor Search

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, we have initiated a search for the Vice President/Chancellor 
of the Urbana-Champaign campus. We are looking nationally for the best 
candidates. To help us, we have engaged Isaacson, Miller, a highly 
respected executive search firm specializing in mission-driven 
organizations [http://www.imsearch.com]. Michael Baer and Pamela Pezzoli 
of I,M will visit the campus next week. In order to help us to both 
identify the most suitable potential candidates, and develop the most 
appropriate candidate background material for the search committee's 
consideration, we would like to provide you an opportunity to meet with 
Michael, Pam and myself:

Public Forum on the Search for a Vice President/Chancellor 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illini Room C, Illini Union
4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Monday, January 24

We also strongly encourage you to visit the search website where you will 
find links to nominate candidates, or to comment on the qualities the 
VP/C should have, at http://www.uillinois.edu/UrbanaChancellorSearch/ 

Broadly, we are looking first for someone with an outstanding record of 
scholarly achievement and leadership, and for someone who also has a keen 
sense of the difficult issues currently confronting public higher 
education. The focus of our discussions will be the important particular 
qualities of, and the challenges facing, the new VP/C. After a brief 
introduction to the responsibilities of the VP/C and to the search 
process, we will invite your input. The categories of topics we are 
interested in are:

1) Objectives for the new VP/C. What do you want the new VP/C to 
accomplish? What are the desired outcomes for the role and for the 
University? How will you know in three to five years that the right 
person was hired? What will have happened?

2) Qualifications and Experience. Based on the objectives identified, 
what do you think are the qualifications and experience of an ideal 
candidate? What is essential and what might be helpful?

3) Personal Qualities. What are the personal attributes most important 
for this role?

Thank you for your participation in this important effort; we look 
forward to working with you.

Professor Douglas H. Beck
Chair, Search Committee for Vice President/Chancellor
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1110 West Green Street, Room 401A
Urbana, IL 61801-3080
(217) 244-7994
(217) 333-1215 (FAX)

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The Office of the President

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