College President James Freedman will choose two students early next week for the Dean of the College Search Committee, which will be chaired by Dean of the Faculty Ed Berger.
The Committee, which will also include three administrators, three faculty members and Student Assembly President Frode Eilertsen '99, is charged with finding a replacement for Dean of the College Lee Pelton, who is stepping down to assume the presidency of Willamette University in Salem, Ore.
Freedman will select the two students from the group of six nominees the Student Assembly gave him Monday. The Assembly's Membership and Internal Affairs Committee chose the nominees from a group of 40 applicants Thursday night and notified them by e-mail Monday.
On Thursday, Assembly Vice President Nahoko Kawakyu '99, who chairs the MIAC, said she did not want to release the names of the nominees because she wanted to notify the students individually before the names were published.
Kawakyu still declined to comment on the subject last night after the students had been notified.
Kawakyu also said Thursday that she does not think the student body needs to know who the Assembly nominated.
"When people run for [Assembly] and people elect them, with that vote they are basically approving and giving the students the right to make certain decisions," Kawakyu said Thursday.
During the last dean of the College search, in 1991, the Assembly nominated four candidates for the search committee, but Freedman picked another student, who was not on the Assembly's list.
Freedman later added one of the Assembly's nominees to the committee.
Freedman said Monday the administration and faculty representatives have already been chosen and have accepted the positions, but their names will not be released until the final two students are chosen -- finalizing the make-up of the ten-member committee.
Although Freedman initially said he planned to interview the six nominees, he said yesterday he might rely solely on the applications in making his decision.
Freedman said he and Berger may select the students together, since Berger will eventually be leading the Committee and working with the students.
If he does conduct interviews, Freedman said it is possible that he and Berger would interview the nominees together.
