The Graduate Center Presidential Search Committee considered dozens of candidates and eventually narrowed the field to eleven semi-finalists, who were interviewed by the committee. From this group of highly qualified candidates, the committee has selected four finalists who have been invited to visit the campus.

 

The Committee is pleased to announce that the following finalists will visit the campus on four separate days:

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Dr. Janet Weiss
Dean of the Rackham Graduate School and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
University of Michigan

Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Dr. Dwight A. McBride
Associate Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of The Graduate School
Northwestern University

Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Dr. David Marshall
Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts
University of California, Santa Barbara

All group interview sessions and the open forum scheduled for May 27th have been postponed.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Dr. Chase Robinson
Interim President
CUNY Graduate Center

Room(s) in which meetings will be held are expected to be announced promptly. 

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For each day the schedule of meetings is as follows:

8:30—8:45 Candidate Arrival

9:00—9:50 a.m. President’s Cabinet

10:00—10:50 a.m. Faculty Leadership

11:00—11:50 a.m. Executive Officers

12:00—12:50 p.m. GC-based Faculty

1:00—1:50 p.m. Candidate Lunch and Tour

2:00—2:50 p.m. Administrative Heads of Office

3:00—3:50 p.m. Open Forum for Entire GC Community

4:00—4:50 p.m. Student leadership

5:00—5:50 p.m. Alumni/Foundation Board

If you are generally free at 3 pm during the week, please consider coming to the meetings with the candidates that are open to the GC Community.

Room(s) in which meetings will be held are expected to be announced promptly. 

Each finalist will meet with members of the Faculty, Department Chairs, Student Representatives, Staff members, Alumni and Community representatives. Finalists will also address a one-hour Town Hall Meeting/Open Forum, to which all members of the community are invited. Following introductory comments by the candidates, audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions.

 

Candidates: 

Janet A. Weiss
Dean of the Rackham Graduate School, and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
University of Michigan

David Marshall
Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Santa Barbara

Dwight A. McBride
Dean of The Graduate School & Associate Provost for
Graduate Education
Northwestern University

Chase F. Robinson
Interim President
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York

 

The full curriculum vitae for each candidate are available through:

Marilyn Marzolf

President’s Office
President’s Chief of Staff
Graduate Center, Room 8201.05
212-817-7230
mmarzolf@gc.cuny.edu