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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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