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Trustees appoint faculty members, student, and dean to presidential search committee
The Board of Trustees recently selected 5 BU faculty members, a student, and a dean to serve with 8 trustees on a 15-person search committee that will recommend candidates for the University’s presidency.
The trustees on the search committee, which is led by Board Vice Chairman David F. D’Alessandro, chose the seven additional committee members. They made their selection after meeting since September with many faculty, staff, and students who had accepted an invitation to share suggestions and advice with the group.
“Our goal through dozens of meetings over the past two months was simple,” says D’Alessandro, chairman and CEO of John Hancock Financial Services. “We wanted to listen, to be inclusive, to assemble a diverse search committee, and to make sure that many voices are heard as we recruit and evaluate presidential candidates.
“Ultimately, the Board of Trustees is responsible for selecting a new president,” he adds. “That is not something we can or should delegate. But the search committee, with its inclusive process and diverse membership, will make sure that selection is based on the many needs and the different perspectives from across the entire University.”
The University has been headed since November 2003 by President ad interim Aram Chobanian, former dean of the School of Medicine and provost of the Medical Campus. Chobanian is not a candidate for the permanent presidency.
The newly appointed search committee members are political science and broadcast journalism major MaryGrace Henry (CAS’06, COM’06); School of Management Dean Louis E. Lataif (SMG’61, Hon.’90); Robert Bone, a LAW professor; Bennett Goldberg, a CAS physics professor and acting department chairman; Wade Professor Joseph Loscalzo, a MED professor of medicine and department chairman and director of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute; Ronald K. Richardson, a CAS associate history professor and director of the African-American Studies Program; and Emma Ann MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities Rosanna Warren, a UNI professor and a CAS professor of English and modern foreign languages and literatures.
Trustee Robert Knox (CAS’74, GSM’75), senior managing director of Cornerstone Equity Investors, LLC, is vice chairman of the search committee. He and D’Alessandro are co–vice chairmen of the full board. Other trustees on the committee are Suzanne Cutler (SMG’61), executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; David Myers, an orthopedic surgeon and CEO and president of 2nd Home LLC, a group of medical day-care centers for the elderly; Sharon Ryan (SAR’70), the former president of the Breck Episcopal College Preparatory School and director of the Courage Rehabilitation Center, both in Minnesota; Richard Shipley (SMG’68, GSM’72), honorary chairman of the Shipley Company LLC, a world leader in electronic materials and process technology development, and CEO of Shiprock Capital LLC; and Marshall Sloane (SMG’49), founder of Century Bank and Trust Company and chairman, president, and CEO of Century Bancorp. Trustee Chairman Alan Leventhal, chairman and CEO of Beacon Capital Partners LLC, a real estate development company, serves on the committee ex officio.
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December 2004
Boston University
Office of University Relations