The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has selected three of its own to guide the search for the U’s next president.
Regent Abdul Omari will chair and Peggy Lucas and Steve Sviggum will serve on the presidential search advisory committee, which will work with the firm Storbeck / Pimentel and Associates to identify a small number of semifinalists to succeed Eric Kaler.
The full board will decide, perhaps by the end of the year, who will be the university’s 17th president.
Kaler announced in July he would step down after one more year.
The board is accepting nominations for additional committee members through 5 p.m. Wednesday. They’ll approve those members Sept. 14.
The U says faculty, students, staff, alumni, philanthropy and the broader university and state communities will be represented.
In 2010, Patricia Simmons was the lone regent on the committee that recommended Kaler’s appointment.
In 2002, no regents served on the advisory committee to find Mark Yudof’s replacement. The board that year hired provost and interim president Bob Bruininks instead of one of the committee’s three finalists.