The Regents' Presidential Search Committee and the Institutional Advisory Committees will work in tandem to organize a framework for the search as well as develop a leadership profile for the new president.

Dr. Joe Crowley, who has lead the institution for the past 22 years, announced last month that he will retire on December 31 to return to the classroom.

"It is an awesome responsibility chairing the committee that will select the person to fill the shoes of a legendary president who is the longest serving president of a major university in the United States," said Regent Doug Hill, chair of the Regent's Presidential Search Committee. "When the final selection is made, I hope the people of Nevada will be proud of the job we have done."

Jane Nichols, Interim Chancellor

Douglas Roman Hill, Committee Chair
Jill Derby
Thalia Dondero
Dorothy Gallagher
Howard Rosenberg

Dorothy Hudig, Medical School
Paul Neill, Physics Department
Carol Parkhurst, Resource & Information Technology
Kambiz Raffiee, Business Administration
Ted Sackett, Foreign Languages and Literature

Shannon Ellis, Vice President of Student Services
Jean Perry, Dean, College of Human and Community Science
Angela Taylor, Director of Alumni Relations

Carlos Ledon, ASUN President

Victoria Jacobowski, President of the Graduate Student Association

Judi Hamilton, Buildings & Grounds

Dan Klaich

Paul Bible
Luther Mack
Emma Sepulveda

Both committees will work together throughout the process with a recommendation from the Institutional Advisory Committee to the Regents' committee. The Regents' committee then votes a recommendation to present to the full Board for final approval.

Although Crowley will be stepping down at the end of the year, it is not expected that the search committees will have completed their work by that time. The Board will name an interim president at a later date with the anticipation that a new president could start by July 1, 2001.

Comprised of two doctoral-granting universities, four comprehensive community colleges and one environmental research institution, the University and Community College System of Nevada serves the educational and job training needs of the nation's fastest growing state. As Nevada's only system of higher education, the UCCSN provides educational opportunities to more than 90,000 students.