Ohio University announces Presidential Search Committee

The Ohio College Board of Trustees has introduced the Search Committee for OHIO’s 23^rd president.

The search committee might be chaired by Board of Trustees Chair Peggy Viehweger and can embody representatives from throughout the College group. The extra members of the search committee embody:

• Joseph Becherer – Ohio College Alumni Consultant, Vice Chair, Ohio College Alumni Affiliation Board of Administrators
• Jenn Bennett – Chair, Ohio College Administrative Senate, Government Director of Wellbeing
• Kübra Civan – President, Ohio College Graduate Pupil Senate
• Cary Cooper – Previous Chair, Ohio College Board of Trustees
• Todd Eisworth – Vice Chair, College Senate, Affiliate Professor, Math, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Ana Rosado Feger – Affiliate Professor of Administration, Chair of the Administration Division, Faculty of Enterprise
• Clay Lewis – College Life Commissioner, Ohio College Pupil Senate
• Hannah Nissen – Dean of Campus and Neighborhood Relations, Ohio College Zanesville Campus
• Steve Patterson – Mayor, Metropolis of Athens
• Damon Scott – Ohio College Alumni Consultant, Vice President of the Nationwide Board for the Ohio College Ebony Bobcat Community
• Donal Skinner – Dean, Honors Tutorial Faculty
• Matthew Shaftel – Dean, Faculty of Wonderful Arts
• Dayna Shoulders – President, Ohio College Pupil Senate
• Diane Smullen – Vice Chair, Ohio College Board of Trustees
• Perry Sook – Chair, Ohio College Basis Board of Trustees
• Amrit Thapa – Vice President, Ohio College Graduate Pupil Senate

The Search Committee will overview candidates and suggest finalists to the Board of Trustees, which is finally charged with choosing the College president.

The brand new president’s time period is predicted to start following President Hugh Sherman’s two-year time period, which is ready to conclude on June 30, 2023.

Alternatives for group involvement, suggestions

The whole College group is inspired to take part within the seek for OHIO’s subsequent president by means of surveys, World Café Conversations, conferences with scholar, school, administrative and alumni organizations, and digital conversations with College companions and group leaders.

Surveys might be distributed to school, workers, college students and alumni in early September, and World Café Conversations open to all Ohio College school and workers might be held Sept. 29 on the Athens campus.

Updates on the stakeholder engagement course of, together with key assembly dates, in addition to extra info on the seek for OHIO’s 23^rd president may be discovered on the Presidential Search web site.

President Sherman was appointed to a two-year time period by the Ohio College Board of Trustees in June of 2021. President Sherman, who beforehand served as dean of OHIO’s Faculty of Enterprise, outlined an bold two-year agenda with 5 clear priorities designed to bolster institutional strengths and handle present challenges in order that the incoming president would possibly embrace future alternatives.