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Board to hold first stakeholder meeting on campus
Forum to decide characteristics of chancellor, president
Elyse Jarvis
Issue date: 1/23/09 Section: News
After coming to the conclusion last month that it will split the system's president and chancellor roles, the CSU System Board of Governors announced this week that it will hold its first CSU-Fort Collins stakeholder meeting next month.
Board representatives will meet at the Lory Student Center on Feb. 18 to provide its constituents -- CSU students, faculty, staff and local business and community leaders -- an open forum. There, the BOG aims to determine the qualifying characteristics of its next chancellor.
The meetings' findings will determine whether the search process, which has not yet been organized, will be statewide or nationwide, said Michele McKinney, BOG spokesperson.
"There are many steps in the process, but we are moving forward," she said. Stakeholder meetings will be numerous and will also take place at the CSU-Pueblo campus.
The new role of chancellor is one that, formerly, CSU-Fort Collins presidents were responsible for taking on in addition to university presidential duties, with the CSU-Pueblo president reporting to the CSU-Fort Collins president.
Following former CSU President Larry Penley's abrupt departure Nov. 5, the BOG said it felt a split may be necessary. Having an authority based in Denver to represent student needs to the state legislature, they said, may be most beneficial for the entire system. The system is made up of both CSU-Fort Collins, CSU-Pueblo and CSU-Global.
Meeting in a public forum in December, the board discussed the role and mission of thesystem and, after reviewing leadership models from universities across the country, came to the consensus that the positions should be separate, McKinney said.
"There was no vote and no formal action taken," she said. "(The board members) all came to agreement that that's the direction they'd like to see university go in."
After Penley's departure, both retiring Sen. Wayne Allard and former State Rep. Bernie Buescher expressed interest in the chancellor role prior to its official existence.
Board representatives will meet at the Lory Student Center on Feb. 18 to provide its constituents -- CSU students, faculty, staff and local business and community leaders -- an open forum. There, the BOG aims to determine the qualifying characteristics of its next chancellor.
The meetings' findings will determine whether the search process, which has not yet been organized, will be statewide or nationwide, said Michele McKinney, BOG spokesperson.
"There are many steps in the process, but we are moving forward," she said. Stakeholder meetings will be numerous and will also take place at the CSU-Pueblo campus.
The new role of chancellor is one that, formerly, CSU-Fort Collins presidents were responsible for taking on in addition to university presidential duties, with the CSU-Pueblo president reporting to the CSU-Fort Collins president.
Following former CSU President Larry Penley's abrupt departure Nov. 5, the BOG said it felt a split may be necessary. Having an authority based in Denver to represent student needs to the state legislature, they said, may be most beneficial for the entire system. The system is made up of both CSU-Fort Collins, CSU-Pueblo and CSU-Global.
Meeting in a public forum in December, the board discussed the role and mission of thesystem and, after reviewing leadership models from universities across the country, came to the consensus that the positions should be separate, McKinney said.
"There was no vote and no formal action taken," she said. "(The board members) all came to agreement that that's the direction they'd like to see university go in."
After Penley's departure, both retiring Sen. Wayne Allard and former State Rep. Bernie Buescher expressed interest in the chancellor role prior to its official existence.
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