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4/14/2004
Contact:
Ross C. Feltz -- 724-738-2091; Cell:
412-400-6913; e-mail: ross.feltz@sru.edu
SRU
SEARCH FOR NEW PRESIDENT:
ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS OF CANDIDATES
SCHEDULED
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The presidential search committee at
Slippery Rock University has scheduled11 days of on-campus
interviews beginning April 20 for six candidates for the
university’s presidency.
The
selection of these six resulted from a preliminary round of
interviews the presidential search committee conducted with nine
applicants selected from a nationwide pool of more than
50.
Names
and resumes of the six candidates will be released the day before
their campus interview. Information about each will be available by
clicking on the “Presidential Search” button of the SRU
homepage: www.SRU.edu
Each
candidate will arrive on campus late in the day then have dinner
with the search committee. They will spend the next day-and-a-half
touring campus and meeting with various campus groups, including
members of the president’s cabinet, deans, union leaders,
departmental chairs, campus directors, alumni, trustees and
community leaders. Members of the university-at-large, including
students, faculty and staff as well as interested community
residents will be welcomed to meet the prospective president at
either of two, one-hour open sessions.
The
open sessions are as follows:
Candidate
#1 3:30
p.m., April 21, McKay Education Building, and 10 a.m. April 22,
University Union;
Candidate
#2 3:30
p.m., April 22, McKay Education Building, and 10 a.m. April 23,
University Union;
Candidate
#3 3:30
p.m., April 26, McKay Education Building, and 10 a.m., April 27,
University Union;
Candidate
#4 3:30
p.m., April 27, McKay Education Building, and 10 a.m., April 28,
University Union;
Candidate
#5 3:30
p.m., April 29, McKay Education Building, and 10 a.m., April 30,
University Union;
Candidate
#6 3:30
p.m., May 3, McKay Education Building, and 10 a.m. May 4,
University Union.
The
McKay sessions will be held in the building’s auditorium and
the University Union sessions will be held in the Multi-Purpose
Room.
Following
conclusion of the campus interviews, the search committee, composed
of faculty, staff, students, union representatives, trustees and
state system representatives and headed by SRU Trustee Kenneth
Blair, will recommend three of the six for final approval by the
SRU Council of Trustees. Council’s recommendations will then
be passed to Dr. Judy Hample, chancellor of the Pennsylvania State
System of Higher Education, and ultimately to the state
system’s board of governors, which makes the appointment of
all system university presidents.
PN, PgN,
WPN, PR, PT
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