The search committee that will select the new president at Iowa State University met for the first time Monday. The Board of Regents selected the consulting firm A-G-B Search to help find candidates. A-G-B’s Jim McCormick says they will be in Iowa this week, and then will be back June 12th through the 14th.
McCormick says they will put together a draft of the announcement seeking applicants ready for the committee by June 26th.
McCromick says the application deadline will be August 24th. He says the committee will meet September 12th and go through the applications to narrow them down. His firm will then do background and check to see if the people who applied are still interested. Once they have a list of finalists, they would schedule on-campus visits for late September. The board will interview the finalists in early October, and then the board would make a selection at its meeting in mid-October. The new president will replace Steven Leath who left to take the same position at Auburn University.
