History of the chancellor search
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- University of Illinois’ Katehi tapped for UC Davis; Genentech’s Desmond-Hellmann for UC San Francisco
- Preliminary interviews under way for next UC Davis chancellor
- Advisory committee for selecting new UC Davis chancellor to meet Dec. 12 (UCOP press release, 12.10.2008)
- A conversation with UC President Mark G. Yudof (interview transcript, 10.24.08)
- Search and advisory committee announced (UCOP press release, 10.14.2008)
- Position description
- Committee's Oct. 23 meeting agenda
- The search process
- UC Policy on Appointment of Chancellors
- History of UC Davis leadership
UC President Mark Yudof announced on Oct. 14, 2008, the membership of an advisory committee to assist him in finding a successor to UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef.
Vanderhoef announced in June 2008 that he would step down in a year’s time to coincide with the end of the campus’s centennial year. He was appointed in 1994 as UC Davis’ fifth chancellor and is one of the nation’s longest-serving university leaders.
Yudof sought comments and ideas from the UC Davis campus and wider community as well as from the search committee before announcing his recommendations to the public May 1.
The search advisory committee
- UC Regents Russell S. Gould, Bonnie Reiss, Fred Ruiz, Leslie Tang Schilling and D’Artagnan Scorza;
- Faculty representatives Mary Croughan, chair of the Universitywide Academic Senate and UCSF professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences; Robert Powell, chair of the UC Davis Academic Senate and chair and professor of chemical engineering and materials science; Linda Bisson, past chair of the UC Davis Academic Senate and the Maynard A. Amerine Endowed Chair in Viticulture and Enology; Margaret Ferguson, chair and professor of English, UC Davis; and Michael T. Clegg, UC Irvine professor of ecology and evolutionary biology;
- Staff representative Peter Blando, chair of the UC Davis Staff Assembly and business services manager for Communications Resources;
- Academic Federation representative Michael L. Johnson, Ph.D., vice chair of the Academic Federation and associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, UC Davis;
- Student representatives Malaika K. Singleton, Graduate Student Association chair, and Ivan Carrillo, president of the Associated Students of UC Davis;
- Alumni representative Patrick Blacklock, Cal Aggie Alumni Association president and assistant city manager for the city of Elk Grove;
- UC Davis Foundation representative Michael Chapman, M.D., past chair of the foundation and former chair of the orthopaedic surgery department, UC Davis;
- and Ex officio members of the committee — President Yudof, convener of the committee, and Richard C. Blum, chairman of the UC Board of Regents.