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Diane Heldt, "Regents Approve 5 UI Search Members"

Brian Morelli, "Regents Approve 5 Initial Search Committee Members"

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The members: David Johnsen, dean of the College of Dentistry; Jonathan Carlson, U of I law professor; Lee Anna Clark, psychology professor; Leonard Hadley, retired chairman and CEO of Maytag Corp.; Linda Maxson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Dr. Paul Rothman, Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine.

The other committee members have not been named.

The regents also approved a U of I plan to name Jean Robillard, dean of the Carver College of Medicine, to a new vice president of medical affairs position. Robillard will oversee both the college and University Hospitals.

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  URBANDALE — The University of Iowa’s next presidential search committee should represent as many major constituencies as possible, but doing that in a small group will be a challenge, the search leader said Thursday. The state Board of Regents, meeting in Urbandale, unanimously approved the first five committee members recommended by UI College of Dentistry Dean David Johnsen, the search chairman. Johnsen and those five will meet in the next few days to begin going through recommended names to fill out the rest of the committee. Johnsen expects to have 12 members.

  Johnsen said he hopes to bring the remaining names to the regents for approval at their February meeting.

  Regent Jenny Connolly of Cedar Falls, a University of Northern Iowa student, reiterated her wish to have a student on the committee. Students have been represented on most search committees at the UI, UNI and Iowa State University, she said. ‘‘I would really hate to see this be one of the first ones that doesn’t have a student,’’ she said.

  The group will give it serious consideration, Johnsen said, but he would not commit to it, saying he did not want to speak for the rest of the committee.

  Four regents and two students were on the first committee appointed in the search for a successor to David Skorton, who left the UI in June for the Cornell University presidency. That search stalled Nov. 17 when the regents voted 6-2 to reject four candidates and disband the committee, which led to votes of no confidence by UI faculty, staff and student groups.

  ‘‘Dean Johnsen should be able to choose who he wants to choose and come to the board,’’ Regents President Michael Gartner of Des Moines said Thursday. ‘‘He should pick people he can work with who are representative of the broad community.’’

  Several regents praised Johnsen’s leadership thus far. The goal is to have a new president named by July 1; the committee will recommend four finalists, from which the regents will make the selection. The decision of whether to hold campus interviews with finalists is up to the committee.

  Members approved Thursday are: Jonathan Carlson, a UI law professor who chaired the search for Skorton; Lee Anna Clark, psychology professor; Leonard Hadley, retired chairman and chief executive officer, Maytag Corp., and a UI graduate; Linda Maxson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Paul Rothman, professor and head of the Department of Internal Medicine in the Carver College of Medicine.

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The Iowa state Board of Regents on Thursday approved five initial members to serve on the University of Iowa presidential search committee.

The five members of the search committee include UI law professor Jonathan Carlson, who led the search that led to David Skorton being named president; psychology professor Lee Anna Clark from UI's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Leonard Hadley, retired Maytag Corp. chairman and CEO and rain forest board member; UI Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Linda Maxson; and UI internal medicine professor Paul Rothman.

College of Dentistry Dean David Johnsen was appointed Dec. 18 to lead the search, and he said the members would meet within the next couple days to begin discussing who should fill out the rest of the estimated 12-person committee. The hope, he said, is to have recommendations ready for the Feb. 6-7 regents meeting in Ames.

Cedar Falls regent Jenny Connolly urged Johnsen to appoint a student to the committee, though Johnsen said he couldn't make any promises before consulting with the initial members.

"I would really hate to see this be one of the first committees that doesn't have a student on it," Connolly said. "I don't really feel I could make that decision in the end."

UI has been looking for president since Skorton announced he was leaving to become the president of Cornell University nearly a year ago. There was an initial seven-month, $215,000 search that stalled Nov. 17 when the regents rejected four finalists and disbanded the search committee that recommended them.