Daniels

The formation of the Presidential Search Committee to nominate a successor to former Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman was announced today (July 5) by Peter C. Meinig, chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, and Diana M. Daniels, vice chair of the board. Lehman stepped aside from the presidency June 30.

Daniels will chair the search committee. "I feel honored to have been chosen to take on this important task. We are all Cornellians, and the continued excellence of our great institution is uppermost in our minds. The committee will work diligently to nominate the person best suited to lead Cornell in fulfilling its goals for the future," she said. "The committee will seek advice from the entire Cornell community and from academic leaders throughout the nation and around the world on the characteristics that should be sought in a new Cornell president."

The committee membership will include representatives from several Cornell constituencies, including trustees, faculty members, undergraduate students, graduate students, employees, the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, senior Cornell administration and alumni.

Trustee members of the committee are Daniels, chair; Ezra Cornell; C. Morton Bishop III; Robert T. Blakely III; Elizabeth D. Earle, faculty-elected trustee; Michael V. Esposito, employee-elected trustee; Samuel C. Fleming; Blanche S. Goldenberg; Paul A. Gould; Robert S. Harrison; Myra Maloney Hart; Joshua D. Katcher, student-elected trustee; Robert J. Katz; Peter C. Meinig; Doug Mitarotonda, student-elected trustee; Elizabeth D. Moore; Edwin H. Morgens; and Jan Rock Zubrow.

Nontrustee members are: Antonio M. Gotto Jr., dean of the Weill Medical College and provost for medical affairs; Susan H. Murphy, vice president for student and academic services; Juris Hartmanis, the W.R. Read Professor Emeritus in Engineering; and Laura S. Brown, the J.W. Anderson Professor of English.

Daniels also announced the appointment of three advisers to the committee. They are Harold Tanner, board chair emeritus; Sanford I. Weill, trustee emeritus and chair of the Weill Cornell Medical College Board of Overseers; and Stephen H. Weiss, board chair emeritus.

For more information, see http://www.cornell.edu/presidentsearch/. Daniels asked that individuals who want to communicate with the search committee direct their letters and inquiries to:

Presidential Search Committee
PO Box 4380
Ithaca, NY 14852-4380
CU-pres-search@cornell.edu