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Presidential search committee named
Posted:
August 26, 2011
The newly appointed Georgia College & State University Presidential Search and Screen Committee will hold its initial meeting at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9 in the Georgia College president’s conference room, located in room 301, Parks Hall on the Georgia College campus.
Regent Doreen Poitevint and University System of Georgia 
(USG) Chancellor Hank Huckaby will give the committee its formal charge at this organizational meeting.
A national search will be conducted to replace Georgia College President Dorothy Leland, who stepped down June 30, 2011.
Regent Poitevint, who chairs the Special Regents’ Search Committee, and Chancellor Huckaby will outline to the Presidential Search and Screen Committee the duties and responsibilities associated with its role in the search for new leadership at Georgia College.
The 10-member Presidential Search and Screen Committee will develop a position description, place announcements in appropriate national media and conduct on-campus interviews. The executive search firm of Heidrick & Struggles in Atlanta has been engaged to assist the search committee in the process.
Members of the Presidential Search and Screen Committee are as follows:
• Dr. Ken McGill, past chair, University Senate – chair, Department of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, chair of search and screen committee
• Susan Allen, chief budget officer
• Carlos Herrera, assistant professor, Museum Studies
• Dr. Janet Hoffman Clark, chair, University Senate – associate professor of Rhetoric
• Jen Maraziti, chair of the Staff Council – area coordinator for University Housing
• Dr. Kendra Russell, interim director, Macon Center – associate professor of Nursing
• Evan Karanovich, student government association president
• Angie Gheesling, executive director, the Development Authority of the City of Milledgeville and Baldwin County
• Pete Robinson, chair, Georgia College & State University Foundation
• Chris Gibson, president, Georgia College & State University Alumni Association
The campus-based committee will forward the credentials of three to five unranked candidates to a Special Regents’ Search Committee for the second phase. This committee will be chaired by Regent Poitevint and include Regent Ben Tarbutton III. This committee is responsible for recommending finalists to Chancellor Huckaby who will make a recommendation to the full Board of Regents.
ABOUT GEORGIA COLLEGE: Georgia College, the state’s designated Public Liberal Arts University, combines the educational experience expected at esteemed private liberal arts colleges with the affordability of public higher education. Its four colleges – arts and sciences, business, education and health sciences – provide 6,600 undergraduate and graduate students with an exceptional learning environment that extends beyond the classroom, with hands-on involvement with faculty research, community service, residential learning communities, study abroad and myriad internships.
Founded in 1889, Georgia College boasts one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation with Corinthian columns fronting red brick buildings and wide open green spaces. Georgia College also offers graduate education at the historic Jefferson building in downtown Macon, at Robins Air Force Base and online.
