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I am writing today to update you on progress on our leadership searches. We have elected/appointed the search committees. We have engaged search consultants. We have determined a rough timeline. Many thanks to the Academic Senate and Colleges for managing the election, including helping us determine a fair process for forming a search committee for the founding dean of the College of Health.

Provost/VP for Academic Affairs
I am pleased to announce the search committee for the Provost/VP of Academic Affairs:

• Matthew Attencio (CEAS)
• Nolan Calara (ASI)
• Kyzyl Fenno-Smith (LIB)
• Shubha Kashinath (CLASS, co-chair)
• Roz McCall (Staff presidential appointee)
• Julia Olkin (CSCI)
• Glen Taylor (CBE)
• Kathleen Wong(Lau) (Presidential appointee, co-chair)

• Ayona Chatterjee (CSCI)
• Gr Keer (LIB)
• Michele Korb (CEAS)
• Balaraman Rajan (CBE)
• Michelle Rippy (CLASS)

We have engaged Dr. Cynthia Patterson and Maria Thompson of the search firm, . We are planning for an initial meeting of the search committee within the next couple of weeks and are striving to announce our next regularly appointed Provost/VP Academic Affairs by April 2025 so that individual can meet the dean finalists.

Interim Provost Greer and I are also pleased to announce the search committees for our dean positions:

Dean, College of Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences

• Jen Eagan (Philosophy)
• Danvy Le (Political Science)
• Sarah Nielsen (English)
• Gwyan Rhabyt (Art)
• Dawna Komorosky (Alternate, Criminal Justice)
• Michele Korb (Education, presidential faculty appointee)
• Tiffany Ramoneda (Staff appointee)

• Elena Dukhovny (Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences)
• Monika Eckfield (Nursing)
• Juleen Lam (Public Health)
• Albert Mendoza (Kinesiology)
• Sarah Taylor (Social Work)
• Erick Kong (Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism, presidential faculty appointee)
• TBD (staff appointee)

• Christian Gaedicke (Engineering)
• Murray Horne (Psychology)
• Derek Kimball (Physics)
• Joshua Kerr (Statistics)
• Andrea Arauza Rivera (Alternate, Mathematics)
• Ines Thiebout (Music, presidential faculty appointee)
• Dana Rucker (staff appointee)

We have engaged  to assist us with all three dean searches. The timeline for these searches is to have finalists visit campus, including an open forum, in April and May with appointments announced soon thereafter.

Please join me in thanking every one of these individuals for their willingness to serve in these important leadership searches. I am confident we will be successful. We will keep you informed as the process evolves.

Sincerely yours,

Cathy Sandeen
President


October 23, 2024