The UNCW chancellor search committee met last weekend, Friday March 18 through Sunday, March 20, to discuss individual candidates for the new chancellor. The committee met at the UNC Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler School of Business Rizzo Conference Center.

Throughout the weekend meetings the chancellor search committee discussed the qualifications, competence and character of individual candidates, according to a university press release.

Most of these meetings were in closed session.

The search committee also met March 9 to discuss possible candidates for the chancellor position.

At this meeting Parker Search Firm gave the search committee a list of 15 to 20 of the most qualified candidates. The search committee then shortened that list to the candidates whom they would like to interview.

“We are very pleased with the search firm, and the candidates it has brought us,” said Wendy Murphy, chairwoman of the search committee. “I think the university will be pleased with the quality of these candidates. They are a diverse group from all over the United States.”

The search committee is on schedule, according to Murphy. The time table given by the search committee says that by March they will interview semi-finalists, select three to five finalists and check references for the finalists. By April, they will interview finalists, recommend three finalists to the Board of Trustees and the BOT will recommend three finalists to UNC system President Thomas Ross. By May, Ross will interview three finalists and recommend a UNCW chancellor to the Board of Governors. The new chancellor will begin work in July.