Members of the Urbana campus will have the opportunity on June 25 to offer comments to a committee leading the national search for the U. of I.’s new president.
The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
The open-microphone forum will give faculty and staff members, students, alumni and community members an opportunity to share their thoughts to help guide the search – from the challenges that a new president will face to the personal qualities needed for the position.
Similar meetings are scheduled this month at the two other U. of I. campuses.
Several members of the presidential search committee will attend each of the meetings, and input from the three forums will be presented to the full committee.
The U. of I. Board of Trustees began the presidential search in March, appointing a 19-member committee that will develop job qualifications, and then identify and screen potential candidates to replace President Bob Easter, who will retire when his term ends June 30, 2015.
The committee will recommend finalists to the board, which intends to name a replacement by late fall to ensure a smooth transition before Easter leaves office. Easter became the university’s 19th president July 1, 2012, after 36 years as a faculty member and top administrator on the Urbana campus.
