University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students have been named to the search committee for a new executive vice president and provost.
In March, UI President J. Bruce Harreld named Gail Agrawal, outgoing dean of the College of Law and F. Wendell Miller Professor of Law, and Teresa Mangum, director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and professor in the Departments of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and English, as co-chairs of the search committee. Karen Shemanski will provide administrative search support.
The following committee members will join Agrawal and Mangum in the search.
- Saba Ali, professor and associate dean, College of Education
- Lance Bennett, graduate fellow, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Christopher Benson, professor of internal medicine and professor of pharmacology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
- Jennifer Blackhurst, professor of management sciences, Henry B. Tippie College of Business
- Keith Carter, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, College of Medicine
- Sandra Daack-Hirsch, associate professor and director of the PhD program in the College of Nursing
- Michelle Fravel, clinical associate professor of pharmacy practice and science, College of Pharmacy
- John Laverty, president of Staff Council and senior associate director of search and prospect development, Office of Admissions
- Rod Lehnertz, senior vice president for finance and operations
- Steve McGuire, director of the School of Art and Art History and professor of metal arts and 3D design
- Laura McLeran, senior advisor to the president and associate vice president for external relations
- Katherine Mellen, associate professor of Instruction, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Lina Moreno-Uribe, associate professor of orthodontics, College of Dentistry
- Corinne Peek-Asa, professor of occupational and environmental health and associate dean for research, College of Public Health
- Tristan Schmidt, undergraduate student, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Paul Soderdahl, associate university librarian
- H.S. Udaykumar, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, College of Engineering
The committee has selected Isaacson, Miller, Inc. as the firm to lead the search. The company most recently assisted with the search that resulted in the hiring of J. Brooks Jackson as the new vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, and is assisting with the search for the next dean of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The committee chairs are meeting with groups across campus to discuss the search. A website will open this summer, and nominations of outstanding candidates for the position are invited. If you have questions or nominations, contact the co-chairs via the search committee email address: provost-search@uiowa.edu.
The new provost will replace Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Sue Curry, who stepped into the role temporarily after Executive Vice President and Provost P. Barry Butler left the UI in March 2017 for a position at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Curry will serve in the role until a permanent provost is hired.