Updates from the Search Committee Chair
January 18, 2012
We have made great progress in our search for highly-qualified candidates. To date, we have20-30 strong applications either on hand or promised, which we understand to be a healthy number for these sorts of searches. The Search Committee is thus on schedule to select the first round of candidates (for short video interviews) the week of February 13.
We’re very appreciative of the several hundred suggestions for possible candidates provided by the CANR community. All have been contacted, and there have been many productive conversations as a result. Suggestions, by the way, are still welcome, but of course time is getting tight.
We have also begun preparations for campus interviews the weeks of March 12 and 19. We expect each candidate to spend three days on campus and will post a draft schedule in the coming weeks. In addition to meetings with senior administrators—including the President and Provost—there will also be meetings with key groups and a public presentation that will include ample time for questions and answers. The presentation will be recorded for those unable to attend. After each interview, we expect to solicit feedback from all who care to respond via paper and web-based forms.
Thank you for your continuing help with the search. Please let me know of questions and concerns.
Phil Roberton
Chair, CANR Dean Search Committee
November 18, 2011
The CANR Dean Search Committee announces the official start of the search for our next dean, and solicits your help with identifying great candidates. Please distribute the position announcement (http://tinyurl.com/78t9yvb) to interested colleagues, but more importantly please consider who you think might make an excellent candidate and bring their names to our attention. Many excellent candidates will not be forthcoming on their own, and we are committed to recruiting the strongest pool possible - which means active recruiting.
We are working with the professional academic search firm of Lansing and Whitfield, and we ask that you submit names of potential candidates to Margot Lansing (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) who can then follow-up in a confidential manner. Alternatively, feel free to submit names to me or to any search committee member. It’s not necessary that you contact the potential candidate first, but of course that would be fine too. It is, however, important that you let me or the search firm know so potential candidates don’t fall through the cracks.
We are also soliciting list-serves and other potential places to place the advertisement. And if you know someone who is currently in a national or administrative position who could provide insight into recruiting potential candidates, please do not hesitate to send that information as well.
We are conducting a vigorous search and welcome your input. We expect to begin reviewing applications in mid-January, to conduct first-round interviews in February (by video) and to host on-campus interviews in March (after spring break). Until the on-campus interviews are scheduled the applicant list is confidential, but I plan to provide periodic updates on the progress of the search as we move through this effort. Please refer back to this area of the website for regular updates.
Thanks in advance for your help with the search, both during this phase as we solicit outstanding candidates and in the on-campus interview phase when we recruit and evaluate finalists for the position. With your help, we will have a first-rate group of candidates and a new dean on board by the start of the next academic year, if not sooner.
Please let me know of questions and concerns.
Phil Robertson
Chair, CANR Dean Search Committee
