College announces members of presidential search committee
By The Dartmouth Staff
Published on Friday, May 25, 2012
Web Update
As part of the developing search process for College President Jim Yong Kim’s successor, the College announced 14 new members of the 17-member Presidential Search Committee in a press release today.
Committee Chair Bill Helman ’80 and Vice Chair Diana Taylor ’77 will be joined by fellow trustees Jim Coulter ’82, Denise Dupre ’80, Annette Gordon-Reed ’81 and John Rich ’80. Chairman of the Board of Trustees Stephen Mandel ’78 will serve as an ex-officio member of the committee.
Tuck School of Business professor Ron Adner, biology professor Mary Lou Guerinot, environmental studies professor Anne Kapuscinski, Dean of Graduate Studies and Thayer School of Engineering professor Brian Pogue, Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry professor Alan Green, music professor Steven Swayne and government professor William Wohlforth will join the committee to represent Dartmouth's faculty.
Emily Bakemeier ’82, deputy provost for the arts and humanities at Yale University, and Dean of Libraries Jeffrey Horrell were also selected to join the committee.
Student Body President Suril Kantaria ’13 will join the committee as its only student member, consistent with the previous Presidential Search Committee that selected Kim in 2009, on which former Student Body President Molly Bode '09 served as the sole student representative.
According to the release, the committee’s first goal is to create a Statement on Leadership Criteria, which will detail the qualifications of a president “who embodies the qualities and characteristics that will ensure Dartmouth’s continued preeminence in higher education,” while attracting potential candidates for the job.
The committee will also conduct “more extensive alumni outreach” and host a second faculty forum in the near future, the press release said.
The consulting firm Issacson, Miller has also been selected to support the presidential search in light of its participation in numerous presidential searches, including those at the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College, according to the release.
Any chance we’ll get a president who actually cares about undergraduate education?
Or just another Folt-Kim clone who fires the best faculty members who don’t agree with them…
By Alum ‘09 on May 25 | 2:25 pm
How about Michael Bloomberg for president? Diana Taylor is his girlfriend. His term as mayor will be up. He has a Harvard MBA. He is a huge billionaire with more money than all of the trustees combined. He’ll be 71, but he won’t screw around and could get a lot done in five years.
By Anonymous on May 25 | 2:46 pm
So 4300+ students have one person representing them on the committee, and the significantly smaller body of faculty has 7 representatives. Dartmouth’s main purpose is to educate its students, who, in turn, fund the institution. Why is it that the students have such little say in the choice of the person who shapes their experience?
By Anonymous on May 25 | 3:19 pm
Actually the board members ought to do a pretty good job of watching out for the students….
By Alum ‘80 on May 25 | 6:34 pm
Bloomberg?
Have you examined his education record in New York City?
By Anonymous on May 25 | 8:09 pm
Let’s hope that the faculty members in the group have a say and get it right this time.
By Anonymous on May 25 | 10:08 pm
Not for nothing but I heard Diana Taylor is going to bring Silda for some much needed eye candy on the committee…
By Fred Lund on May 26 | 1:18 am
Bloomberg’s handling of education in New York is irrelevant. Those are public schools. New York has some of the best private schools in the country and lots of people willing to pay big money for the kids to attend them. That sounds like Dartmouth. Elitism. Let’s stay on the role we’ve been on for the last two decades. We need a big name.
By Bill Yun Aire ‘82 on May 26 | 8:09 pm