The search for a new University of Alabama president appears to have reached a conclusion.
According to an email from the UA System, the board of trustees will meet June 16 to consider the appointment of UA’s new president.
The email, sent June 15, says a special called meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Catherine and Pettus Randall Welcome Center Theater on the UA campus.
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The agenda features one item — “consideration of appointment of 30th president at the University ofAlabama” — but does not include the name of the prospective new UA president.
In January, current UA President Stuart Bell announced his plans to step down in mid-summer after leading the Tuscaloosa campus for 10 years.
Shortly after Bell’s announcement, the UA Presidential Search Advisory Committee was formed. The committee was led by University of Alabama System Trustee Karen P. Brooks, a Tuscaloosa native, and included UA faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members, along with other trustees and UA system leaders.
Academic Search, a company with more than four decades’ experience in higher education recruitment, was hired to help the search committee. The company also assisted UA in the of Bell and former president Robert E. Witt.
The search committee held a series of listening sessions in late January and early February via Zoom, with more than 500 faculty, staff, students, alumni and Tuscaloosa community members participating.
The goal of the listening sessions was to find out what kind of characteristics, qualifications and credentials they wanted to see in UA’s next leader.
In March, the search committee released 14 qualities desired in UA’s next president, which included a record of significant leadership, sterling character and the ability to help guide a successful athletics program.
Reach Ken Roberts at ken.roberts@tuscaloosanews.com.
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