{"id":197911,"date":"2024-05-16T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=197911"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T00:59:45","slug":"national-recruitment-next-uh-president-begin-late-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/16\/national-recruitment-next-uh-president-begin-late-may\/","title":{"rendered":"National recruitment for next <abbr>UH<\/abbr> president to begin in late May"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/gnrc-system-bachman-mural-tag.jpg\" alt=\"Charlot mural at Bachman Hall\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-196798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/gnrc-system-bachman-mural-tag.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/gnrc-system-bachman-mural-tag-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/gnrc-system-bachman-mural-tag-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The national recruitment for the next president of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> 10-campus system will officially begin in late May 2024 after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/bor\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Board of Regents<\/a> (<abbr>BOR<\/abbr>) approved the position description and leadership profile at the May 16 <abbr>BOR<\/abbr> monthly meeting at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. The position description and leadership profile were based on feedback provided through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/08\/public-feedback-next-uh-president\/\">six public forums<\/a> that were held on four islands, and a public survey along with input from the regents and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/07\/regents-approve-presidential-search-members\/\">Presidential Search Advisory Group<\/a> (<abbr>PSAG<\/abbr>), who edited and finalized the profile before it was brought to the board.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/leadership\/president-search\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> President Search Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;We are very pleased that the next phase of the search can officially begin, and the regents thank the <abbr>PSAG<\/abbr> for their important work on the leadership profile,&rdquo; said <abbr>BOR<\/abbr> Interim Chair Gabriel Lee. &ldquo;We are hoping there is a lot of local and national interest in the position and that we are able to attract the best candidates possible to lead the state\u2019s sole provider of higher education.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wittkieffer.com\/capabilities\/solutions\/executive-search\">WittKieffer<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/01\/bor-hires-search-firm\/\">search firm hired by the <abbr>BOR<\/abbr><\/a>, will officially launch the recruitment in late May with outreach and national advertisements. The search is following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/21\/bor-aims-to-hire-next-president-fall-2024\/\">timeline approved by the regents<\/a> on March 21.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May to August&#8212;Candidate recruitment period<\/li>\n<li>August&#8212;Review of candidate materials, first round of candidate interviews<\/li>\n<li>September&#8212;Three to four finalists are named<\/li>\n<li>October&#8212;Final selection and negotiation, new president is announced<\/li>\n<li>Early 2025&#8212;New president begins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <abbr>PSAG<\/abbr> is made up of stakeholders from across the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> system and local community. The group assisted with county forums along with the development of the leadership profile and position description. The <abbr>PSAG<\/abbr> will review candidate applications, identify and recommend candidates for interviews, interview the first round of eight to 12 candidates and recommend semifinalists to the selection committee, which consists of all 11 regents.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the listening phase of the search promised by the regents, approximately 565 people attended the six public forums held across the state in person or via Zoom. The public survey completed in February received 2,093 responses.<\/p>\n<p>The new president will succeed President David Lassner, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/19\/uh-president-lassner-retirement-plans\/\">announced in September<\/a> that he will retire at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The position description and leadership profile were based on feedback provided through six public forums, and a public survey along with input from the regents and the Presidential Search Advisory Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[626,61,62,63,64,65,546,1633,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-197911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-executive-search","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-presidential-search-2","tag-presidential-search-2024","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197913,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197911\/revisions\/197913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}