Cornell's Presidential Search Committee, charged with conducting a search for the university's next president, announced April 24 that it will hold four open meetings over the next few weeks to receive input from the campus community. The first open meeting, for all students at Cornell in Ithaca, was held April 30 in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Read the story.
Edwin H. Morgens, vice chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees and chair of the search committee, released the following report on the search process, April 24.
To assist in the process of obtaining input from the campus community, the search committee has established several subcommittees. The subcommittees will work specifically with faculty, staff, students, alumni and the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences community. In addition, members of the subcommittees will host open meetings in Ithaca and at the medical college. The following events are scheduled:
The purpose of the open meetings is to solicit input on what attributes the next president should have to lead Cornell through the completion of its previously articulated strategic priorities; to identify what type of individual would be able to bring his or her own vision into this context; and to identify any other challenges or opportunities Cornell is facing that need to be part of the incoming president's priorities for the university.
In addition to the open meetings, search committee members will meet with senior administrators and deans to solicit the same type of input as will be invited from other campus constituencies. A significant portion of the May 2002 board of trustees meeting will allow trustees the opportunity to answer these questions, as well.
Based on the input received during this initial phase of its work, the search committee will develop a "case statement" -- to be made available to the public -- that will articulate the characteristics Cornell seeks in its next president. Once that document is created, the committee will begin the confidential process of researching and identifying prospects.
Trustee members:
Edwin H. Morgens, chair; Leslie C. Barkemeyer,
student-elected trustee; J. Thomas Clark; Diana M.
Daniels; Michael V. Esposito, employee-elected trustee; Samuel
C. Fleming; Barbara B. Friedman; William E. Fry,
faculty-elected trustee; Myra M. Hart; Peter C. Meinig,
chair-elect of the board; Rebecca Q. Morgan; Andrew M. Paul;
Harold Tanner, current chair of the board; and Jan Rock
Zubrow, alumni-elected trustee.
Non-trustee members:
Patrick M. Carr, graduate student; Harold G.
Craighead, faculty; Kenneth A. McClane Jr., faculty; Ralph
Nachman, M.D., Medical College faculty; Inge T. Reichenbach,
university administration.
Advisers:
Sanford I. Weill, trustee emeritus and chair of
Cornell's Weill Medical College Board of Overseers, and Stephen
H. Weiss, trustee and board chair emeritus.
Executive secretary:
Barbara L. Krause, assistant secretary of the
corporation and associate university counsel.
Subcommittees for constituency groups:
Faculty: H. Craighead, W. Fry, K. McClane, D. Daniels
and M. Hart.
Students: L. Barkemeyer, P. Carr, A. Paul and J. Zubrow.
Staff: M. Esposito, L. Barkemeyer, T. Clark and S. Fleming.
Alumni: I. Reichenbach, T. Clark, B. Morgan and J. Zubrow.
Medical College: R. Nachman, D. Daniels, B.
Friedman and H. Tanner.
Isaacson received his B.A. from Dartmouth in 1968; he studied politics, philosophy and economics at University College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship and graduated in 1970. He received his J.D. from Harvard in 1973. He had a lengthy career in public service in Massachusetts before founding Isaacson, Miller in 1982.
Stevens attended Wellesley College and received her B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley. She has been with Isaacson, Miller since early 2000 and previously held senior administrative positions at Yale University (associate director for community and state relations), University of Pennsylvania (executive assistant and chief of staff to the president) and Georgetown University (executive director of administrative excellence).
Isaacson, Miller is affiliated with the Washington Advisory Group, an association of 15 of the most distinguished and accomplished scientific and academic leaders in the nation.
Presidential Search Committee
P.O. Box 4688
Ithaca, N.Y. 14852-4688
Comments may also be sent via e-mail to cu-pres-search@cornell.edu. A web site devoted to the search is under construction and will be available in the near future.
The Search Committee is comfortable that the significant efforts to obtain input at the beginning of the process, as well as the broad representation of campus constituencies among the membership of the committee itself, will allow the committee to consider all community voices throughout the search process.
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