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for dean
■ Four finalists remain in the
search for a leader for the
College of Arts and Sciences.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Potential deans for the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
largest college will visit City
Campus next month.
The search to find a new dean
for the College of Arts and
Sciences has been narrowed to
four finalists, said David
Brinkerhoff, acting senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs.
William Frawley of the
University of Delaware at
Newark, Richard Hoffmann of the
State University of New York at
Albany and Russell Tomlin of the
University of Oregon at Eugene
join UNL chairman of mathemat
ics and statistics W.J. “Jim” Lewis
as finalists.
Frawley has been at the
University of Delaware since 1979
and has been chairman of the lin
guistics department since 1994.
He was a Fulbright professor
in English at Jagiellonian
University in Krakow, Poland, in
1985-1986. Frawley has also
taught in Poland, Hungary and
Morocco.
Hoffmann has been the dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences
at the State University of NewYork
at Albany for two years.
He taught biology at the
University of Pittsburgh and zool
ogy and genetics at Iowa State
University in Ames, where he
spent 18 years.
Tomlin has been a part of the
University of Oregon faculty since
1979 and has been associate dean
of humanities since 1996.
He has spent nearly all of his
career at Oregon. He served a year
as a visiting professor at the
University of Alberta in
Edmonton, Canada. Tomlin has
been an associate professor, pro
fessor and head of the depart
ment of linguistics at Oregon.
Lewis has been a member of
the UNL faculty since 1971 and
chairman of the mathematics
and statistics department since
1988.
He has been active in the
advancement of elementary, sec
ondary and undergraduate edu
cation in mathematics and the
sciences by co-authoring grants
that netted more than $11 mil
lion.
The four candidates are vying
to replace Brian Foster, who left
last spring to take a job as the vice
president and provost of academ
ic affairs at the University of New
Mexico at Albuquerque.
Linda Pratt, chairwoman of
the English department, is cur
rently the interim dean of the col
lege.
Committees
ready, eager
to fill voids
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The new dean will also need
to understand how a university
works, Fought said. He or she
should know how to get things
done within the hierarchy of the
administration.
“Deans have to know people,”
Fought said. “They have to under
stand where people are coming
from and know how to relate to
and work with them.”
Fought said he didn’t think the
university had looked in the
wrong places for deans before,
although he said it would be good
to hire someone with experience
at a public institution similar to
the university.
Despite that criteria, Fought
said the university doesn't need to
limit the search to just people
from UNL.
"Maybe we need more con
tact with our roots,” he said. "But
the greater we cast the net, the
greater chance we have to catch
someone great for our institu
tion."
Despite faculty members
who are anxious for permanent
leaders at UNL, Dennis Smith
said there is no rush to fill the
positions.
"I think the future looks excel
lent,” Smith said. "I don't see the
sense in spending a year recruit
ing a new chancellor. But I don’t
know exactly how long it will
take.”
Search committee tapped to find new research chief
■The process will begin to
replace Marsha Torr, who
resigned in August.
BY MARGARET BEHM
To fill one of the most presti
gious jobs on campus, a search
committee has been formed to
find a new vice chancellor for
research.
Marsha Torr resigned from
that job in August to become vice
president of research at Virginia
Commonwealth University in
Richmond, Va.
Torr had been vice chancellor
since April 1999.
Don Helmuth, the associate
vice chancellor for research, was
named interim vice chancellor for
research until a replacement for
Torr can be found.
There are eight members on
the selection committee.
Linda Pratt, chairwoman of
the committee, said it’s important
to get someone in the position
quickly.
“This is a critical position for
the well-being of our university,”
said Pratt, interim dean of Arts
and Sciences. “We want to get
someone very, very good in there
who can take the job on a perma
nent basis.”
Evelyn Jacobson, associate
vice chancellor for academic
affairs, said that even though the
committee hasn't met yet, the
process should be underway
soon.
“The committee is really
small," said Jacobson. “So we’re
hoping to proceed very quickly to
identify and appoint a vice chan
cellor for research.”
The current location of poten
tial candidates isn’t an issue,
Jacobson said.
“The university looks for the
best person who is available and
interested,” she said. “Sometimes
tljat person is an internal candi
date; sometimes they’re from out
side the university.”
The position will be advertised
nationally in academic media,
including the Chronicle for Higher
‘This is a critical position for the well-being of
our university
Linda Pratt
interim Arts and Sciences dean
Education.
The top ranking applicants
will be brought to campus to meet
faculty.
The committee will then send
their final recommendations to
Interim Chancellor Harvey
Perlman, who will make the final
decision.
Other members of the com
mittee are:
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, pro
fessor of electrical engineering.
Judy Diamond, professor of
museum studies.
Ruben Donis, associate pro
fessor of veterinary and biomed
ical sciences.
Adam Green, a graduate stu
dent
David Johnson, professor of
sociology.
Charles Wood, professor in the
School of Biological Sciences.
Shashi Verma, professor in the
School of Natural Resources.
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