Chancellor search panel announced

by Daniel J. Fitzgibbons, Chronicle staff

he process of hiring a new Amherst campus chancellor moved ahead this week with the naming of a 20-member search committee by President William M. Bulger and Board of Trustees chair Grace K. Fey, who is also leading the search panel.

     The committee includes Board of Higher Education Chairman Stephen Tocco, Executive Vice President James R. Julian, Jr., Worcester campus Chancellor Aaron Lazare and trustees Robert Mahoney, Jack Naughton and Karl White. Jon Laubinger, the new Amherst campus student trustee is also on the panel.

     Campus representatives include Charlena Seymour, interim senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and provost; Javier Cevallos, vice chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life; Lila Gierasch, head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Anthropology Department chair Ralph Faulkingham; Mzamo Mangaliso, associate professor of Management; Music professor and Faculty Senate secretary Ernest May; and Melinda Novak, chair of the Psychology Department.

     Alumni Andrew Changelian,'83, Denise Coll, '75, Daniel Rivera,'96 and Marty Jacobsen, '68 are on the panel as is Craig Melin, president of Cooley-Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.

     "I want to thank the members of the committee for accepting this important responsibility," said Bulger. "I know that each one of them will bring great experience and talent to the mission of finding the best possible leader for the Amherst campus."