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Committee begins selection process for new provost
SBA president to serve as student rep
By Jimm Phillips on 11/15/07
The Provost Search Committee officially began its work earlier this month and is now in the process of selecting an executive search firm to assist it.
The 11-member committee and President Neil Kerwin officially began the search when they held their first meeting Nov. 6.
AU's faculty elected three of the search committee members - Search Committee Chair Robert Griffith, chair of the College of Arts and Sciences' history department; CAS professor Anthony Ahrens; and School of International Service professor Philip Brenner - while Kerwin appointed the remaining eight members of the committee. Seven of the appointed committee members are AU faculty or staff, while the committee's student member, Karim David Marshall, is president of the Washington College of Law's Student Bar Association.
The leaders of the Student Government, Graduate Leadership Council and SBA decided Marshall should represent students on the committee, SG President Joe Vidulich said.
"Because the provost addresses issues in all of the university's schools, we needed someone on the graduate level to give input to the committee on their interests," he said. "Undergraduate concerns will be represented and articulated during the process in other ways."
Representatives from the undergraduate student population are among the groups interviewing finalists. Vidulich and GLC Chair Edgar Meza will help decide who will be in the groups who interview the finalists, Vidulich said.
Additionally, Marshall will keep Vidulich and Meza informed regularly on the provost search process, Vidulich said.
"[Marshall] will meet with us weekly to go over where the committee is in the search process, and we will articulate to him our concerns and suggestions," he said.
Former SG President Ashley Mushnick and former GLC Executive Chairman Wade Murphy were members of the search committee that selected Kerwin as its nominee to be the university's permanent president.
The 11-member committee and President Neil Kerwin officially began the search when they held their first meeting Nov. 6.
AU's faculty elected three of the search committee members - Search Committee Chair Robert Griffith, chair of the College of Arts and Sciences' history department; CAS professor Anthony Ahrens; and School of International Service professor Philip Brenner - while Kerwin appointed the remaining eight members of the committee. Seven of the appointed committee members are AU faculty or staff, while the committee's student member, Karim David Marshall, is president of the Washington College of Law's Student Bar Association.
The leaders of the Student Government, Graduate Leadership Council and SBA decided Marshall should represent students on the committee, SG President Joe Vidulich said.
"Because the provost addresses issues in all of the university's schools, we needed someone on the graduate level to give input to the committee on their interests," he said. "Undergraduate concerns will be represented and articulated during the process in other ways."
Representatives from the undergraduate student population are among the groups interviewing finalists. Vidulich and GLC Chair Edgar Meza will help decide who will be in the groups who interview the finalists, Vidulich said.
Additionally, Marshall will keep Vidulich and Meza informed regularly on the provost search process, Vidulich said.
"[Marshall] will meet with us weekly to go over where the committee is in the search process, and we will articulate to him our concerns and suggestions," he said.
Former SG President Ashley Mushnick and former GLC Executive Chairman Wade Murphy were members of the search committee that selected Kerwin as its nominee to be the university's permanent president.
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