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University of California President Robert C. Dynes has named a 17-member committee of university regents, faculty, staff, students, alumni and community representatives to advise him in the search for the next permanent chancellor of UC Riverside.

Former UC Riverside Chancellor France A. Córdova recently left UC to assume the presidency at Purdue University. Robert D. Grey, a UC veteran and former executive assistant to Córdova on health affairs, is currently serving as acting chancellor.

Named to serve on the advisory committee are:

UC Regents Benjamin Allen, William De La Pena, Odessa Johnson, Joanne C.
Kozberg and Bruce D. Varner;

Faculty representatives David Clarke, department of materials, UC Santa Barbara; Joseph Childers, department of English, UC Riverside; Mary Croughan, vice chair, universitywide Academic Senate; Jodie Holt, department of botany and plant science, UC Riverside; and Manuela Martins-Green, department of cell biology and neuroscience, UC Riverside;

Staff representative Adrienne Sims;

Student representatives Denny Chavez, president, Undergraduate Student Association, and Alex Cortez, president, Graduate Student Association;

Alumni representative Jack Clarke, president, UC Riverside Alumni Association; and UC Riverside Foundation chair Barbara Robinson; and

Ex-officio members Dynes, convener of the committee, and Richard C. Blum, chairman of the UC Board of Regents.
Wyatt R. (Rory) Hume, UC provost and executive vice president for academic and health affairs, and Linda Morris Williams, UC associate president, will serve as consultants to the committee.

The committee’s first meeting is set for Oct. 29, 2007, at UC Riverside, where committee members will meet in closed session with faculty, staff, students and community representatives to gather ideas and comments regarding the search and to learn the distinct needs of the Riverside campus.

The committee also will be involved in recruiting, screening and conducting interviews with candidates for the position. The nationwide search will be assisted by the search firm of Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates.

Dynes hopes to bring a recommendation on a candidate to the Board of Regents by mid-to-late spring 2008.

For more information about the search: http://chancellorsearch.ucr.edu/