Provost search committee chosen

From the Northeastern Voice, October 23, 2007

At President Joseph Aoun’s request, the Faculty Senate Agenda Committee has established an ad hoc search committee for provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, in collaboration with the president.

“We need to recruit people very actively,” President Joseph Aoun said during last week’s meeting with the campus community.

“We’re going to launch a national search. We’re going to look at candidates internally, externally—there is no barrier,” he said. “But it’s not going to happen simply by having a search committee. It’s going to happen by sending strong messages that we are a community that is working on its future, that we have the confidence to shape it.”

Criminal justice professor Donna Bishop will chair the search committee, with psychology professor Joanne Miller as vice chair. Other members:

Trustee Margot Botsford, computer and information science Associate Dean Agnes Chan, law professor James Hackney, Stephen Lavenberg of the Student Government Association, counseling and applied psychology professor Karin Lifter, engineering Dean David Luzzi, graduate student Tina Penman, electrical and computer engineering professor Carey Rappaport, and accounting professor David Sherman. Donna Bishop chairs the search committee.