With today’s announcement by Chancellor Albert Carnesale
that he will be stepping down from his position in June 2006, the
UC Board of Regents and UC President Robert Dynes will begin the
process to decide who will succeed him.
President Dynes will begin a national search for a new
chancellor as soon as possible, according to a UC statement
released today.
An advisory committee of regents, along with UCLA faculty,
staff, students, alumni and community representatives, will be
convened to assist with the search.
After the advisory committee has reviewed several candidates,
they will recommend no less than five and no more than 15
candidates to President Dynes for selection, according to the
regents’ Policy on Appointment of Chancellors.
President Dynes will then present the candidate he finds
suitable to the regents for approval, said Daniel Neuman, UCLA
executive vice chancellor and provost.
A simple majority vote by the regents will approve the candidate
presented by Dynes.
“Knowing my colleagues, this is one process that works
quite well,” Carnesale said, in regards to the selection
process.
Nueman said that UCLA as a university is not directly involved
in the selection process.
According to the regents’ Policy on Appointment of
Chancellors, 16 individuals make up the advisory committee to the
UC president, including five regents, five faculty, the chairman of
the board, the UC president, an undergraduate and graduate student,
an alumni, and a staff employee.
This number can fluctuate, but usually by only one or two
people, said Noel Van Nyhuis, a spokesman for the UC Office of the
President.
Carnesale said there was not one certain characteristic that
will decide the new chancellor, but that the next chancellor will
need to “(keep) one’s eye on the ball.”
“That means excellence in all aspects, teaching, research
and service, and it’s integrating all three of those.
That’s what makes a research university different,”
Carnesale said.
UC Irvine was the most recent campus to receive a new
chancellor, which took place earlier this year, but UC San Diego,
UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz all received new chancellors as well
in 2004.
Carnelsale was approved to serve as chancellor by the regents on
March 6, 1997, after being recommended to the regents for selection
by then UC President Richard Atkinson. Carnesale was the provost
for Harvard University before becoming chancellor of UCLA.
Carnesale replaced Charles E. Young, who retired after almost 30
years of serving as UCLA chancellor, making Young the
longest-serving chancellor in UC history and, at the time, the
longest serving leader of any university campus in the nation.
With reports from Charles Proctor, Bruin senior
staff.