The University of Minnesota plans to hire a search firm and name a roughly 10-member search committee by early March, with AD finalists announced by late spring. On Feb. 11, the day before Minnesota officially began its search, the school’s vice president for human resources, Kathryn Brown, made several recommendations before the Regents audit committee. President Eric Kaler said, “She’s recommending pretty strongly using a search firm for a couple reasons. One, is we don’t want to make a misstep. You look at what happened at Illinois, for instance, they started thinking they didn’t need a search firm, they got bogged down. I don’t want to lose that time, number one. Number two is it does bring a source of other candidates that we might not know about, and a bigger pool’s a better pool. And it also brings, frankly, some structure and some capacity to just get the work done and having those extra hands is helpful.” -Joe Christensen, Star Tribune, Read More
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