Presidential Search Committee Named

19-member panel will gather community input

October 1, 2018

The MSU Board of Trustees has assembled a 19-member search committee to help ?nd a permanent replacement for Interim President John Engler.

Committee members were chosen to rep-resent a range of constituencies and a variety of disciplines. 

They will gather input from faculty, staff, students, and alumni to develop a set of criteria for selecting the university’s next leader, who will be elected by the BOT.

The board anticipates announcing that decision in June 2019.

The committee will be co-chaired by MSU Trustees Dianne Byrum, ’74, and Melanie Foster, ’77. Alumna Teresa A. Sullivan, ’70, ’14, former president of the University of Virginia, is serving as an adviser to the co-chairs.

The other members are:

• Debra Bittner, ’84, president, Coalition of Labor Organizations at MSU

• Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, ’93, ’95, Universi-ty Distinguished Professor of history and associate dean, Graduate School

•Prabu David, dean, College of Communication Arts and Sciences

• Joel Ferguson, MSU Trustee, ’65

•Mary Finn, director and professor, School of Criminal Justice

• Thomas Glasmacher, laboratory and project director, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and University Distinguished Professor

•Linda Hubbard, ’82 , president and COO, Carhartt, Inc.

•Tomas Hult, Byington Endowed Chair and director, International Business Center in the Eli Broad College of Business

• Dan Kelly, MSU Trustee

•Leo Kempel, dean, College of Engineering

•Bonnie Knutson, ’78, ’82, professor, School of Hospitality Business

•Wanda Lipscomb, ’78, associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, and senior associate dean for Diversity & Inclusion, College of Human Medicine

•Mark A. Murray, ’76, ’79, past president, Grand Valley State University

•David L. Porteous, ’74, Board of Directors of Huntington Bancshares Inc. and past MSU Trustee

•Katherine Ri?otis, president, Associated Students of Michigan State University

•Gregory J. Spray, ’14, doctoral candidate, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication Arts and Sciences

•Felicia Wu, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.

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