UF announces Presidential Search Advisory Committee
Staff report based on release from the University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Today the University of Florida made the following announcement:
I am pleased today to appoint and introduce the members of the University of Florida Presidential Search Advisory Committee. The members are a distinguished group representing the UF Board of Trustees, student body, faculty, administration, alumni and other stakeholders and supporters of the University of Florida. Each has agreed to make the significant commitment of time and dedication needed to identify highly qualified candidates for the critical position of UF’s 14th president. Those on the Committee possess a diverse array of expertise, professional interests and accomplishments, as well as one crucial common trait: a deep devotion to UF’s future.
I am also pleased to announce that UF Board of Trustees member Rahul Patel will serve as chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee. Rahul received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Florida (BA ’94, JD ’97), is serving his second term on our Board of Trustees and currently serves as our Board’s Vice Chair and Chair of the Committee on Academic, Faculty & Student Success, Public Relations & Strategic Communications. Joining Rahul on the Committee are the following 14 members:
- Mr. Charles Allison, UF Alumnus and IFAS Representative
- Mr. Douglas Band, UF Alumnus
- Mr. John Brinkman, UF Student Representative, UF Student Body President
- Mr. Timothy Cerio, UF Alumnus
- Dr. Shakira Henderson, Dean, College of Nursing
- Mr. Charles Lydecker, Board of Governors Representative
- Dr. Sarah Lynne, UF Faculty Representative, Faculty Senate Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Service
- Dr. Duane Mitchell, UF Faculty Representative, Phyllis Kottler Friedman Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the UF Clinical Translational Science Institute
- Dr. Michael Okun, UF Faculty Representative, Professor, Department of Neurology and Director, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases
- Ms. Marsha Powers, UF Trustee
- Mr. Jon Pritchett, Chair, UF Foundation Executive Board
- Mr. Robert Stilley, UF Alumnus
- Ms. Karen Unger, UF Alumnus
- Mr. Patrick Zalupski, UF Trustee
The Search Committee is advisory and will ultimately recommend a small number of highly qualified candidates to the UF Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees will interview the finalists and select the next president of the University of Florida, with the Board of Governors of the State University System ratifying. The Committee will be assisted by an executive search firm selected by the Board of Trustees. The charge to the Committee and brief biographies of Committee members will be posted on a search website. A link to this site will be shared once it is available.
The Committee begins its work in a momentous and transformative time for the University of Florida, which, in 2022, was first ranked as a Top 5 public university in the country. The next president will have an opportunity to lead Florida’s flagship university in its quest to be firmly and consistently recognized among the most prominent and influential public and private universities in the country. With these distinguished and dedicated Committee members in place, we can now begin our presidential search with the focus needed to ensure we identify the best leader to take the University of Florida into the future.
Sincerely,
Mori Hosseini
Chair, University of Florida Board of Trustees
Keep lying Ron DeSantis out of the process.
Trust me – the only two people who are on the real selection committee are DeSantis and Mori.
The rest of this is window dressing just like the selection of Sasse where it was a lovely little pay-to-play exchange between DeSantis and Pete Ricketts in Nebraska. Ricketts wanted Sasse’s senate seat and DeSantis needed money for his not yet failed presidential campaign. Ricketts’ rich daddy gave DeSantis $1 million the day after Sasse’s selection at UF was announced.
Interesting. Link?
If true, the trashing of Florida’s excellent public university system turns out to be at least part personal ambition to go with the rigid ideology. New College – 2 years ago ranked only behind the 3 service academies as a public college by US News and Report – is now a joke and a ruined asset of the state while meddling by politicians in tenure as well as enrollment from China, India, etc will quickly cut UF’s, FSU’s, etc reputation among the best academics who will go elsewhere.
The town clown speaks. Get real
Marge looney speaks
Time for a regime change; all leadership needs to go from Nelson, Norton, Motew, Curry….
Nelson and Norton are two of the most respected leaders at UF. While Motew is still an unknown.
I’ll agree with you on Curry though who earned her position through simple persistence while others bailed. She was, so to speak, the last man standing but not qualified.
Same Board of Trustees chairman – Hosseini – who totally screwed up the last search that ended in an expensive disaster. Why is Sasse getting severance pay when he quit? That implies he was fired but the board doesn’t want to admit that or they might have to say why.
Remember, this board changed the rules to make the list of applicants private – Government in the Sunshine, my butt – from which the last few would be made public before a decision. They didn’t do that, and so totally own the Sasse debacle all by themselves. Can we fire them?
Now they are announcing the same procedure which I guess they follow if they feel like it. The board is a bunch of political high donors. Let’s hope the “Search Advisory Committee” are not also chosen for their political loyalties.
You’ve put “Search Advisory Committee” in quotes and that’s supremely appropriate.
Those people have zero say in who gets hired. The search committee picked six actually qualified finalists last time, none of which were Sasse, and then in the secretive process, DeSantis and Mori installed Sasse for cash.
I guess Sasse had the last laugh. He stole more from UF than Ricketts donated to DeSantis’ campaign and is still stealing $1 million a year until the truth comes out about why he really “resigned.”
I didn’t know that about the finalists last time, but that is doubly damning for the Board of Trustees.
Purge all globalist commies. They destroy what they claim to save or protect. Commies must go !
They’re gone JK and have been gone for at east a decade. Try to keep up with world events.
Jazzman thinks CCP stands for Chinese Cookout Party. He’s a real space case.
It’s a label, not a reality Peabody. I’ve explained this to you many times and a survey by you of how modern China works will prove it.
“China has rewritten its political rulebook to delete references to all ideology but that of supreme party leader Xi Jinping, forcing its cabinet, the State Council, to defer to highest-ranking Communist Party leaders on all “major decisions.”
The changes come amid a far-reaching institutional shake-up as Xi Jinping begins a third and indefinite term in office, concentrating executive power in the hands of Communist Party working groups rather than in the hands of ministers and other administrative officials.
References to Marxism, Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, the thought of Deng Xiaoping and the ideologies of former presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao have all been deleted from the new edition of the document titled “Working Procedures for the State Council” that was published on official websites on March 18….”
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/new-rulebook-03292023124017.html
What about Tampoon Tim and his Chinese gal friend daughter of a CCP official? Been to China 30 times. ?
Jazz is a huge supporter of the wood burner
I’m sure the next prez has already been contacted.
Make sure the next prez doesn’t like to throw $38K sushi parties. Unless of course I’m invited too.
Disclaimer “White males need not to apply”