In Review

The Board of Trustees has established a committee to select the University’s next president.

Cochaired by University Trustee Cathy Minehan ’68 and Board Chair Danny Wegman, the Presidential Search Committee is working with three campus advisory committees—a University Advisory Committee, consisting largely of faculty; a Staff Advisory Committee; and a Student Advisory Committee—with the goal of selecting a president by 2019. The new president would then begin in July 2019 at the start of the 2019–20 academic year.

The committee has established a website, Rochester.edu/presidential-search, where information is posted about the position, the search process, names of committee members, timelines, and other activities. The site will be updated regularly over the course of the search.

Members of the University community can submit suggestions, questions, and nominations in confidence at the site.

The committee has engaged Spencer Stuart, an international executive search and leadership consulting firm with significant successful experience in conducting senior searches in higher education.

A former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and former dean of the Simmons College School of Management, Minehan has served on the board since 1995. Wegman, the chairman of Wegmans Food Markets Inc., has chaired the board since 2016.