The formation of the Presidential Search Committee to nominate a successor to former Cornell University President Jeffrey S. Lehman was announced in July by Peter C. Meinig, chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, and Diana M. Daniels, vice chair of the board. Lehman stepped aside from the presidency June 30. Hunter R. Rawlings III, president emeritus of Cornell and a current member of the faculty, is serving as interim president.
Daniels chairs the search committee. “I feel honored to have been chosen to take on this important task. We are all Cornellians, and the continued excellence of our great institution is uppermost in our minds. The committee will work diligently to nominate the person best suited to lead Cornell in fulfilling its goals for the future,” she said. “The committee will seek advice from the entire Cornell community and from academic leaders throughout the nation and around the world on the characteristics that should be sought in a new Cornell president.”
The committee membership includes representatives from several Cornell constituencies, including trustees, faculty members, undergraduate students, graduate students, employees, the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences, senior Cornell administration and alumni.
For more information, see http://www.cornell.edu/presidentsearch/
—Cornell News Service
