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Contact: Anne Barton, 602-229-2543, anne.barton@asu.edu
Candidates for UA presidency set to interview
January 17, 2006 -- Fred Boice, Chair of the UA Presidential Search Committee, has announced the names of four candidates who have accepted an invitation to interview with the search committee on January 18 and 19. They are:
The search committee, which includes Regents, faculty, students, administrators, alumni, and business, legislative, and community leaders, will meet with the candidates in Tucson. The committee is expected to forward the names of final candidates to the Board of Regents on January 19.
A series of meetings and forums is being organized for finalists to visit the UA campus and meet UA campus and community representatives. The Board of Regents is expected to announce a decision shortly thereafter.
Regent Boice said, “This appointment is critical to the future of the University of Arizona and to the well-being of the State of Arizona.”
Boice also praised the efforts of the search consultants, Ann Hasselmo and Stan Ikenberry, from Academic Search Consultation Service, and the search committee members who volunteered their participation in the search process. More than 200 prospects were nominated and/or expressed interest in this position to succeed UA President Peter Likins, who will retire when his current contract expires June 30, 2006.
Regent Boice said, “I believe these candidates have demonstrated the leadership abilities and achievements that the committee is looking for in a new president.”
Biographical data about each candidate is provided below. More information about the search can be found on the University of Arizona or Board of Regents’ websites, www.arizona.edu or www.azregents.edu.
Candidates for UA President
Dr. Tom Campbell was named Bank of America Dean and Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley in 2002. He took leave in 2004 to become California State Finance Director and recently returned to his present position at UC Berkeley.
Dr. Campbell served five terms in the U.S. Congress and is a former California state senator. He was a tenured Professor of Law, on the faculty of Stanford University for 19 years. Dr. Campbell's experience includes law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, law clerk to Judge George E. MacKinnon, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and a litigation practice with Winston & Strawn in Chicago.
His experience also includes White House Fellow in the Office of the Chief of Staff; Executive Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice; Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission; economics expert witness with LECG, Inc.; public member of the board, American Institute of CPA's and American Academy of Ophthalmology; as well as service on publicly traded corporate boards.
As a U.S. Congressman, Dr. Campbell served on the following committees: Judiciary, Banking and Financial Institutions, Joint Economic Committee, Small Business, Science and Technology, and International Relations. He earned his J.D., Magna Cum Laude, in 1976 at Harvard and was a member of the Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review. He earned his Ph.D., Economics, with the highest fellowship awarded in the Department, at the University of Chicago in 1980; and his M.A. and B.A. degrees were earned simultaneously in Economics at the University of Chicago in 1973.
Dr. Deborah A. Freund has been Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs and Provost of Syracuse University since 1999 where she is
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Economics. She is also
Adjunct Professor of Orthopedics at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Dr. Freund was Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties at
Indiana University-Bloomington from 1994–1999 and Co-Director of the Bowen
Research Center at the IU School of Medicine. From 1979–1988 she was on the
faculty at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received an A.B.
in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis (1973), an M.P.H. in Medical
Care Administration (1975), an M.A. in Applied Economics (1975), and a Ph.D. in
Economics (1980) from the University of Michigan.
A visiting scholar at Stanford, Harvard, Australian National and Keio
Universities, Dr. Freund is an internationally recognized health economist,
known for research on Medicaid, health care outcomes, and pharmacoeconomics. She
has published widely and has been the principal investigator of many grants and
contracts from the federal government and private foundations. Dr. Freund has
testified as an expert before Congress and consulted for state governments and
international pharmaceutical companies. She received the Drotman Prize from the
American Public Health Association (1981) and the Kershaw Prize from the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (1991).
Dr. Freund has been on the governing boards of Health Research and Education
Trust, The Lifetime Health Care Companies, The National Association of College
and University Business Officers, and the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Dr. Yash P. Gupta is Dean and Professor of Operations Management, Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair in Business Administration in the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. From 1999-2004, Dr. Gupta was Dean and Professor of Operations Management, Kirby L. Cramer Endowed Chair in Business Administration at the University of Washington. From 1992-1999, he was Dean and Professor of Management in the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado at Denver. While he was dean at the University of Colorado, the Regents awarded him the “University of Colorado Medal” for exemplary service to the University.
Dr. Gupta’s academic experience also includes Frazier Family Professor in the School of Business at the University of Louisville (1988-1992), faculty positions at the University of Manitoba and Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bradford. He currently serves on the Governing Board, Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business, and he has held recent Governing Board memberships with the Washington Technology Center, Pacific Coast Banker’s School, and the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.
Dr. Gupta earned a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Bradford, England, in 1976. He also holds an M.Tech, Production Management, Brunel University of West London, England; a B.Sc.Eng., Production Engineering, Punjab University, India; a P.Eng., Association of Professional Engineers, from the Province of Manitoba, Canada; and he completed the College Management Program in the Heinz School of Public Affairs at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Robert N. Shelton is Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost/Professor of Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has held that post since 2001; and prior to that he was at the University of California Davis for fourteen years serving successively as chair and professor in the Department of Physics and Vice Chancellor for Research. From 1996 to 2001 he served as Vice Provost for Research for the University of California system out of the President’s office. His other academic appointments have been Professor of Physics, Iowa State University (1978-1987) and Assistant Research Physicist, University of California San Diego (1975-1978).
As Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Shelton is the chief operating officer and is responsible for the university’s budget. As Provost, he is the chief academic officer, responsible to the Chancellor for the conduct, coordination, and quality of the University’s academic and research programs. He has been active on external boards and councils, including the Space Telescope Institute Council that advises and provides oversight and advocacy to NASA for the Hubble Space Telescope; the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics, responsible for policy decisions for the residential school for high school juniors and seniors; and the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of Research Triangle Institute, an organization with a distinguished history in scientific research and technology development.
Dr. Shelton has had visiting appointments as Guest Scientist in Germany and Japan and as Visiting Professor in Switzerland.
His Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics were earned at University of California San Diego, and he earned his B.S. in Physics at Stanford University in 1970.
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