TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents has appointed several members to a committee searching for a new chancellor for the University of Kansas.
The 24 new members announced Wednesday include representatives of the university’s faculty, staff, students, alumni, endowment, administration, athletics and residents of Lawrence. The committee will be led by regent Dave Dillon.
The committee will be looking for a replacement for chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, who has said she will step down next summer. The search group has been instructed to identify three to five candidates for the job.
The regents said in a news release the committee will work during the next several months with the search firm R. William Funk & Associates.
Search committee members representing alumni/foundation include: Lydia Beebe, Senior Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and KU Endowment Association Trustee; Greg Ek, First Vice-President and Wichita Branch Manager for Morgan Stanley, and KU Alumni Association National Board member; Dave Roland, President of NDC Technologies and KU Alumni Association National Board member; Deanell Reece Tacha, retired federal judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and Chair of the KU Endowment Association Board of Trustees; and Steve Sloan, Chief Executive Officer of Midwest Minerals, Inc. and KU Endowment Association Trustee representing KU Athletics.
Search committee members representing KU students include: Stephonn Alcorn, a senior from Gardner, Kansas, studying Finance and the KU Lawrence Student Body President; Gabby Naylor, a senior from Providence, Rhode Island, majoring in Accounting and presently serving as the KU-Lawrence Student Body Vice President; and Christina Hughey, a third year medical student at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Chair of the Student Governing Council for the Medical Center Campus, and that body’s incoming President-elect.
Search committee members representing faculty, administration, and staff include: Ann Brill, Ph.D., Dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas; Tracie Collins, M.D., Chair at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita; Joseph Harrington, Ph.D., Professor in the KU Department of English and University of Kansas University Senate President; Roy A. Jensen, M.D., William R. Jewell, M.D. Distinguished Kansas Masonic Professor, director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, and director of the Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute; Amalia Monroe-Gulick, Associate Librarian faculty member with the University of Kansas Libraries, and University of Kansas Faculty Senate President-Elect; Robert D. Simari, M.D., executive dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine; Rodolfo H. Torres, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for the University of Kansas Office of Research and a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics; Brian Moss, Staff Senate President-Elect; and Elizabeth Phillips, President of the KU Staff Senate.
Search committee members representing the wider Lawrence community and the broader Kansas community include: Willie Amison, Jr., Ed.D., former elementary school Principal and President of Amison Consulting; Joan Golden, Senior Vice President of Development for U.S. Bank of Lawrence; and Debbie Nordling, State Farm Agent and KU Alumni Association Southwest Kansas chapter co-leader.