News He road to a new Chancellor An advertisement for the Chancellor position was posted on The Chronicle of Higher Education (print ami online), the Penn State Wfebsite, HigherEd.com, and Academic36o.com. Aug. 28- Sept. 4 Dr, Romano, Vice President for Com monwealth Campuses and appointing officer for the new chancellor position, came to Behrend. The chancellor search committee met with Romano and discussed evaluation criteria. Metzgar continued from front page final completion is scheduled for Mav 28. “It's going to he a gorgeous building." says Miller. “It almost might favor the Met/gars' house in Warren." The building, which has two levels and will be adjacent to the Kochel building, will in clude a large stone fireplace. Incoming students and returning Alumni alike will be able to use the Metzgar Building as a portal for all their Penn State Behrend relations. The new building will house many offices, including those of the bur sar, the registrar, and financial aid. Colle The search committee will meet for approximately six hours. The com mittee meets to review applications and select 8-10 candidates for ini tial interviews. The committee will also determine questions and the which Miller says will "really separates the building' from the others on campus." The building is designed to have many glass windows so that you can see in it and out of it. Other features include a waiting area and a back patio, where events will be held. further construction must be done on the Reed parking lot to plant grass and build a side walk between the Metzgar building and the Kochel build ing. fortunately, the construc tion will not affect parking. Wednesdays Only 50% off any pizza order offer is good for delivery or carry out from 11:00am - 10:00pm No need for coupon just ask for the College Special Call (814) 824 - 8282 *Offei may not be combined with any other discounts, coupons, deals or specials format for the interviews. 9-12 Nov. Initial interviews and a committee meeting are scheduled. Interviews are 60 minutes conducted by video-tele conference. After the last interview, the committee selects candidates to invite to final interviews. v/i Hil^ . Ll_ L, L, Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. e 50% OFF Da No limit order as much as you ’d like 2009 / 2010 If necessary, the committee will meet for approximately three hours. The second screening of applications re ceived over the holiday break will be reviewed. The committee will deter mine if a second set of initial inter views should be conducted. Nov. 3 according' to Miller "We will be able to invite stu dents in before they are stu dents," Miller says. "The building is going to he a mutli faceted. one-stop shop for stu dents." The Metzgar building is in tended to make Behrend's ad inistrative process more invenient The (tffices of the Bursar, the Registrar, and Financial Aid will now be moved to this build ing so that students and parents will not have to be redirected to Jan. 18-19 Jan. The second set of initial interviews will begin, if various locations. The second level of the building will be ded icated to admissions. Another of the Metzgar building's functions is to wel come Behrend alumni hack to the campus and to host any alumni functions. " The Met/gar center will be a sort of book end," says Miller. "You come to it before you're a student, and it's the first thing you come back to as an alumni." The final four to five candidates will have their last interviews. Candidates will interview at Penn State Erie and University Park. Jan. 25-1 necessary. Search continued from front page someone that is a dean ni vice president for academic altaii s " According to Burke. Id miatu > will be the person to appoint Ins successor and he has appointed the chancellor search roinniit and screening committee." Burke said. "They will trv to get as many people into the pool and as diverse a pool as they possibly can The search committee in eludes If) people anil represen tation from campus faculty, staff, students, and the (. nuncil of fellows, as well as fr<mi the broader l 'mversitv commumtv. l’arente said that not eveiv major and area at the collegi can be represented in the com mil tee "fifteen people are not going to adequately represent all the constituencies." she said Due to this. I’arente encour ages stakeholders to give input toward the 1 development of evaluation criteria lor the new chancellor. The next step in the process occurs in the week of Nov. d 12. The committee will review ap plications ami select s-lo can THIS WEEK’S WEATHER -Matt Alto, Weather Editor Wednesday 50 -'4O ATTENTION WRI TERS: Here you can voice your opinion in the: opinion section, show your creativity in ■ the Behrend Showcase, and get experi-i ence in the Communications field while: building your resume by writing news ar-| tides. i ißecome a staff or contributing: ;writer by applying online at; iwww.thebehrendbeacon.com. ; Bl lIKI M) Bl AC ON (Jctober f). d(K>!» www.thebehrendbeacon.com Feb. 26 Note: All dates are tentative I lit' committee is a search monday tuesday 53 41 51 39 mix of clouds and sun partly cloudy Interested in writing for the Beacon ? Late March/ early April The new chancellor appointment is announced. didaU - lot initial intei views Additlonailv. the committee will del I | 111 I lie the quest lulls and lormat Ua the inter' lew s " I hev will start sneening jappl a. al ions j and lead t lie re sumes." 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According to a pi ess release from Romano, the goal is to make a new chaneellor ap pi liniment hep me | lie end of I he Spimp semester, with a start date nil iir admit luK 1. 21l IU. mostly cloudy thursday 48 38 mostly cloudy
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