The list of 35 applicants for the next chancellor of Southern University has been reduced to a list of 16, according to a media release yesterday from Ralph Slaughter, president of the Southern University System.
According to the [email protected] website, April is the month for conducting telephone reference checks, completing background checks and selecting the final candidates.
During this process, Carey Ash, president of the Student Government Association said, “It’s been the slowest process I’ve ever seen, but I’m glad. I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is to ensure that the best candidates will be selected.”
Ash continued to say that every committee member reviewed every page of every applicant and had input. While reviewing, he especially looked favorably on those applicants that had experience with student affairs, fundraising, good management, those not afraid of going against Southern traditions that are archaic and who had a clear cut vision for Southern that included recruitment and retention.
The origin of this chancellor search process dates back to July 2007 when Edward Jackson, the former chancellor, announced that he was going on a one year sabbatical, said Slaughter.
“That time will be up June 30. On June 30, he will vacate that job, so when you have a job of vacancy, you need to be moving in trying to fill that job on a permanent basis; that’s the whole reason of why you do interims up to the time the job is vacant.”
Three months after Jackson’s announcement, on October 1, 2007, a resolution from The Faculty Senate sent to the System President and System Board of Supervisors stated, “Therefore be it further resolved that, upon initiating the process of selecting the chancellor that there be a national search; the national search is deliberate, exhaustive, credible and transparent; the time dedicated to the search is sufficient and adequate to insure a deliberate and exhaustive process; and the goal of the search is the selection of a chancellor who can return this institution to national prominence.”
According to the media release, interviews for the upcoming chancellor will be held Monday, April 7 to Thursday, April 10 at Southern in the J.S. Clark administration building, second floor. In complying with having a transparent process, the approximate one-hour scheduled interviews are open to the public.
The scheduled interviews are as follows: On April 7 at 9 a.m., Dr. Kofi Lomotey, executive vice president, provost, and professor of education at Fisk University and former president and professor of education, Fort Valley State University; at 10 a.m., Dr. Paul Keys, M.S.W, C.S.W.M., professor, joint tenure public administration and social work, and former provost/vice president for academic affairs and university professor, Governor’s State University; at 11 a.m., Dr. Christopher Jeffries, provost/vice president for academic affairs, Talladega College; at 1 p.m., Dr. Bettye Parker Smith, former interim president and former provost/vice president for academic affairs, Dillard University.
On April 8 at 9 a.m., Dr. Lester Newman, consultant for the board of trustees, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, and former president and professor of political science, Mississippi Valley State University; at 10 a.m., Dr. Roosevelt Newson, vice president for university programs, University of North Alabama; at 11 a.m., Dr. Burnett Joiner, senior vice president for academic affairs and professor, Benedict College; at 1 p.m., Dr. Mac A. Stewart, vice provost, minority affairs and special assistant to the president for diversity, The Ohio State University.
On April 9 at 9 a.m., Dr. M. Christopher Brown, dean, College of Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; at 10 a.m., Dr. Wynetta Y. Lee, executive in residence and visiting professor, executive Ph.D. program, Jackson State University and former associate vice president for academic planning, research, and graduate studies, California State University-Monterey Bay; at 11 a.m., Dr. Joseph M. Stevenson, distinguished scholar and professor of higher education, and former provost and vice president for academic and student affairs, Jackson State University; at 1 p.m., Dr. Leroy Davis, president, Davis and Associates, LLC and adjunct professor, College of Business, Southern University and A&M College and former dean and research director and extension administrator, School of Agriculture, Research, Extension and Applied Sciences, Alcorn State University.
On April 10 at 9 a.m., Dr. James Llorens, dean, Graduate School, Southern University and A&M College; at 10 a.m., Dr. Rita J. Teal, interim vice president and associate professor of mathematics education, South Carolina State University; at 11 a.m., Dr. Ray Belton, chancellor, Southern University at Shreveport; at 1 p.m., Dr. Napoleon Moses, vice president for academic affairs and professor of quality management, Alcorn State University.
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Chancellor search dwindles field down to 16
April 6, 2008
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