Presidential
search committee selected
The UNM
Board of Regents last week approved a UNM Presidential Search
Committee consisting of three members of the Board of Regents,
three UNM faculty, one dean, a staff, an undergraduate and a
graduate student and a UNM alumnus.
In June,
the board named UNM Political Science Professor F. Chris Garcia
as the Universitys 17th president effective Aug. 1, 2002
while a national search is conducted for a permanent president.
Garcias appointment coincided with the departure from
UNM of former President William C. Gordon, who took the position
of provost of Wake Forest University.
The regent
members of the committee are David Archuleta, Esq., an Albuquerque
attorney who will serve as chair of the committee; Sandra Begay-Campbell,
a senior member of the Technical Staff, Photovoltaic and Renewable
Energy Program Office, Sandia National Laboratories; and Larry
D. Willard, Board of Regents President and Regional President/CEO,
Wells Fargo Bank New Mexico.
UNM faculty
members of the committee are Pope Mosely, M.D., professor of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and chair, Department of
Internal Medicine; Virginia Seiser, reference librarian and
Women Studies Selector, Zimmerman Library; and, Amy Wohlert,
professor and chair, Speech and Hearing Sciences.
School of Engineering Dean Joseph Cecchi, who is also a professor
of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, was also named.
David G. Sanchez, senior program manager, Extended University,
will represent UNM staff on the committee.
Rosalyn
Nguyen, Associated Students of UNM senator, who is currently
working toward a B.B.A., finance, represents UNM undergraduate
students; and, Beatrice Dominguez-Meiers, Graduate and Professional
Student Association member, who is currently working toward
her Ph.D. in organizational learning and instructional technologies
at UNM, will represent UNM graduate students.
Jacqueline
J. Baca, president, Bueno Foods and member, UNM Alumni Association,
will be the alumni/community representative.
Search Coordinator assigned to the committee will be Nancy Middlebrook,
Ph.D., program planning officer, Office of the Provost and Vice
President for Academic Affairs.
The board
also approved the search firm of A.T. Kearney to help the committee
identify candidates for the position of UNM president. Additionally,
the board approved its Charge to the Committee and the Code
of Ethics for the Committee.