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by Leigh DuPuy
The Search Committee officially announced the four recommended candidates for the UMass Boston chancellorship to UMass President William Bulger on December 21 in a public, on-campus meeting.
The four finalists are: Jo Ann Gora, a provost and vice president for academic affairs at Old Dominion University; Louise Mirrer, executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at City University of New York; Louis Paradise, executive vice chancellor and provost, University of New Orleans; and James Wyche, an associate provost at Brown University.
President Bulger thanked the committee for their hard work and briefly outlined the next steps in the search process. He will interview the four candidates and anticipates bringing each to campus for an opportunity to meet the UMass Boston community in February.
Diane Bissonnette Moes, the committee chair and Board of Trustees member, discussed the group’s criteria in their search. “We were looking not only for a candidate who would be great for UMass Boston,” She said, “But also to express to any candidate what is great about UMass Boston.”
A continuing search that began in June, the committee met throughout the fall to cull finalists from a pool of 92 candidates. From a smaller group of forty-five that survived an initial screening, the committee chose eight semi-finalists, whom they met. The final four were selected from this group and the committee completed credit and criminal background checks before issuing the official announcement.