PROCEDURE FOR APPOINTMENT OF LABORATORY DIRECTORS
Approved November 17, 1972*

That the following procedure for appointment of Directors of the three major Department of Energy Laboratories be endorsed by The Regents and be utilized for an experimental period, subject to review after appropriate experience:

(1) When a vacancy occurs or is imminent, a joint Committee, including Regents and others, will be appointed to advise the President of the University. The Committee will consist of five Regents appointed by the Chairman of the Board, five members appointed by the President of the University from the University's faculty, research scientists, and research administrators, and the Chairman of the Board and the President of the University, ex officio. The President of the University will convene the Committee.

(2) The President of the University will submit to the Committee for evaluation not less than five nor more than fifteen names of candidates whom he considers promising. The Committee will evaluate these nominations of the President and may consider or suggest other names. It may interview candidates. It will solicit the opinions of other interested groups in whatever manner it considers appropriate.

(3) After the Committee has completed its evaluations and advised the President of the University, he will make his recommendation to The Regents through the Committee on Oversight of the Department of Energy Laboratories for consideration and approval.

(* Revised to update Atomic Energy Commission to Department of Energy and Committee on Special Research Projects to Committee on Oversight of the Department of Energy Laboratories.)