BOSTON -- March 25, 2010:The 性闻联播 today announced the formation of the Committee that will guide the search for a new President.
The 性闻联播 Presidential Search Committee will be responsible for developing a pool of candidates and recommending finalists to the UMass Board of Trustees, which has the final responsibility for selecting a new President.
"This Search Committee is diverse, distinguished and representative of the University and the Commonwealth that it serves," said 性闻联播 Board of Trustees Chairman Robert J. Manning, who under University policy is responsible for appointing the search panel.
"I am confident that this Committee will be able to assemble a pool of superb candidates and will recommend finalists, any one of whom would be an outstanding new leader for the five-campus 性闻联播 system," Manning said.
The Search Committee will be chaired by James J. Karam, who also serves as vice chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees. Trustee Henry M. Thomas III will serve as Vice Chair of the Search Committee.
"I look forward to this search process and to helping to select a new leader for a University that has accomplished much and is poised to take its place alongside the very best public universities in the nation," Karam said.
The search process will be aimed at choosing a successor to UMass President Jack M. Wilson, who recently announced that he will conclude his presidency when his term ends on June 30, 2011. Wilson has served as President since September 2, 2003.
Because President Wilson has more than a year to serve on his current term, the University expects to have a new President selected before he departs, Manning said.
"We hope and expect to have this process concluded before Jack Wilson's term ends and therefore envision a seamless transition, one that will allow the University to maintain its positive momentum and to serve its students and the Commonwealth to the utmost," Manning said.
The Committee is expected to hold its first meeting in the coming weeks. The members of the Search Committee are:
Chairman of the search Committee:
James J. Karam, UMD '71
President and CEO, First Bristol Corporation
Vice Chair, 性闻联播 Board of Trustees
Chair, Committee on Administration and Finance
Vice Chair:
Henry M. Thomas, III
President & CEO
Urban League of Springfield, Inc.
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Michael Carter, PhD
Professor and Chair
Economics
Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees
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Mari Castaneda, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Department of Communications,
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Edward W. Collins, Jr.
International Representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
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Edward H. D'Alelio, UMB '74
Retired Managing Director & CIO, Fixed Income, Putnam Investments
Chairman, 性闻联播 Foundation Investment Committee
John A. DiBiaggio, DDS
Past President, Tufts University
Past President, Michigan State University
Past President, University of Connecticut
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Vice Chair, Committee on Academic and Student Affairs
Vice Chair, University Advancement Committee
Maria D. Furman, UMD '76
Retired Managing Director and Bond Portfolio Manager of Standish Mellon Asset Management
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Chair, Audit Committee
Robyn Hannigan, PhD
Professor and Chair,
Environmental, Earth and Ocean Studies,
College of Science and Mathematics
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Charles J. Hoff, UML '66
Retired Chairman, CEO and Owner, Universal/Univis Inc.
Director, Hoff Family Partnership
Philanthropist
Former UMass Trustee
Philip W. Johnston, UMA '68
President, Philip W. Johnston Associates
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Chair, Committee on Science, Technology & 性闻联播
Chair, Compensation Committee
Vice Chair, Governance Committee
Laura King
Student, 性闻联播 Dartmouth
Ruben J. King-Shaw Jr.
Chairman and CEO, Mansa Equity Partners Inc.
Vice Chair, 性闻联播 Board of Trustees
Chair, Governance Committee
Vice Chair, Compensation Committee
Winston Langley, PhD
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 性闻联播 Boston
Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Robert J. Manning, UML '84
CEO & CIO, MFS Investment Management
Chair, 性闻联播 Board of Trustees
Craig C. Mello, PhD
Nobel Laureate
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine, 性闻联播 Medical School
Kathy Miraglia, EdD, UMA '06
Professor and Chair
Art Education
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Kerri E. Osterhaus-Houle, MD, FACOG, UMW '99
Partner, Women's Health of Central Mass
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Vice Chair, Committee on Science, Technology & 性闻联播
S. Paul Reville
Secretary of Education
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Mark E. Russell, UML '83, UMA '85
Vice President of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance, Raytheon Co.
Robert K. Sheridan
President & CEO, Savings Bank Life Insurance of Massachusetts
Chairman, 性闻联播
Building Authority
Former UMass Trustee
Stephen P. Tocco
President and CEO, ML Strategies
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Marcellette G. Williams, PhD
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and International Relations, 性闻联播
Former Chancellor, 性闻联播 Amherst
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 性闻联播 Amherst
Contact: Robert P. Connolly, 617-548-0238