The board of trustees approved all 15 members of the Presidential Search Committee at their Sept. 15 meeting, according to a press release.
Committee members were selected in several ways. Committee Chairman Gary Abramson selected the trustee, staff and dean representatives, according to the original announcement of the search. Leaders of the Student Government, Graduate Leadership Council and Student Bar Association selected GLC Executive Director Wade Murphy and SG President Ashley Mushnick as the student representatives.
Previous presidential search committees also included student government leaders as members. Full-time faculty voted to select School of Communication Professor Patricia Aufderheide, College of Arts and Sciences Professor Alan Kraut and Senior Reference Librarian Mary Mintz as their representatives, The Eagle previously reported.
Six of the eight trustees on the committee are alumni of AU, including Abramson, Jack C. Cassell, Gisela Huberman, A. Robyn Mathias, Matthew Pittinsky and Jeffrey Sine.
The committee expected to hold its first meeting today and will provide an update soon after it meets, according to the press release.
Members of the Presidential Search Committee:
Trustees:
Gary M. Abramson, Chairman of the AU Board of Trustees, Partner in The Tower Companies and AU alum
Stephanie M. Bennett-Smith, Professor Emerita at Centenary College
Jack C. Cassell, President and Chief Operating Officer at Visual Aids Electronics and Conference Systems Inc. and AU alum
Gisela B. Huberman, President of GBH Radio Inc. and AU alum
A. Robyn Mathias, Former Principal at Rolling Terrace Elementary School, Takoma Park, Md., and AU alum
Matthew S. Pittinsky, Chairman and Cofounder of Blackboard Inc. and AU alum
The Rev. John R. Schol, Bishop of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church
Jeffrey A. Sine, Vice Chairman and Global Head of Telecommunications and Technology at UBS Securities and AU alum
Faculty:
Patricia Aufderheide, professor in the visual media division of the School of Communication
Alan Kraut, professor in the history department of the College of Arts and Sciences
Mary Mintz, Senior Reference Librarian in Bender Library
Students:
Wade Murphy, executive director of the Graduate Leadership Council
Ashley Mushnick, president of the Student Government
Staff:
Robin Beads, associate director of Institutional Research and Assessment
Dean:
William M. LeoGrande, dean of the School of Public Affairs
