University Times

The committee searching for a new, permanent Pitt chancellor hopes to narrow its list of candidates to 14-to-16 people by March 9, committee chairperson James Roddey told his fellow trustees at last week's board meeting.

Currently, 22 candidates are still formally in the running, although the committee will continue to seek out additional high-quality candidates until the search is completed, Roddey said.

After conducting intensive background checks and off-campus interviews with the 14-to-16 semi-finalists, the search committee will invite four-to-six finalists to meet with groups of Pitt faculty, deans, staff, students and trustees in May.

The committee hopes to make its final recommendations to trustees' chairperson J. Wray Connolly by June 1, Roddey said.

In other Pitt administrative searches, Provost James Maher said he expects soon to receive a list of finalists for the College of General Studies deanship. The search committee for a new dean of the Katz Graduate School of Business has invited seven candidates for interviews in Pittsburgh and plans to recommend finalists to the provost in late March. The search committee for a new dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs is doing background checks on 15 candidates and plans to recommend finalists to the provost by late April.

— Bruce Steele