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Iowa Regents Halt Presidential Search Amid Dissatisfaction With Candidates

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

November 17, 2006

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Iowa’s Board of Regents today terminated its search for a new University of Iowa president, saying the four finalists for the job lacked the necessary experience in health-science operations. The four regents who served on the search committee voted to reopen the search in the hope of finding candidates with broader experience. Two other regents voted against the decision, and one abstained.

The University of Iowa has “many, many areas of greatness, and one clearly is the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and the board wants to ensure that we have strong leadership to build on that greatness,” said the board’s president, Michael G. Gartner, in a written statement.

The board did not say when it would resume the search, which is designed to find a successor to David J. Skorton, who left to become Cornell University’s president in July.