2008 Woodie Awards
Provost steps down
Ashley Hopkins
Issue date: 12/1/05 Section: News
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UTC will have an acting provost in place to serve until a replacement for John Friedl can be made, beginning Jan. 1, 2006.
Friedl, the current provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs, announced that after a two-and-a-half year stint at the job, he would no longer be serving in the position and plans on going back to teaching in the political science department next fall, where he is tenured.
Friedl declined to be interviewed, but Chancellor Roger Brown said Friedl would be taking next semester off.
"We have a policy for when a senior administrator desires to return to the faculty, they have one semester to prepare to return to teaching," Brown said. This is so they will have time to talk to the department in which they will teach, decide what courses they want to teach and have some time to prepare to re-enter the classroom, Brown said.
Brown said that he has begun looking internally to place someone as an acting provost until a replacement for Friedl can be found.
Brown has asked the deans and department heads to make nominations, either of themselves or another dean or department head, for acting provost. After this person is put into place by Jan. 1, he will begin the search for a permanent replacement.
"I am currently leaning toward hiring a national search firm, such as the one who ran the chancellor search, then they will work with a committee of faculty and students to screen candidates for the semester," Brown said. He added that he hoped to have someone in place by July 1, 2006, but it may take longer.
Herbert Burhenn, dean of the college of arts and sciences, said he also thinks the hope is to have someone in place before school starts back next fall, but that things don't always work out that way.
"I suspect we'll interview candidates this spring," Burhenn said. "Whether we'll find someone satisfactory is anybody's guess."
Brown said: "We'll take as long as it takes. If by then we don't have someone that we're all confident is the best person for the job, then we'll keep searching."
Brown said he did not expect to see any negative implications of Friedl's choice to leave when the acting provost takes over.
"I believe that this person will be …. someone who is very well respected and who knows the university very well," Brown said.
Brown said he did not know Friedl's personal decision for quitting, but only that he indicated to him that he was ready to return to his position as a faculty member.
Burhenn added that last time a provost left, it took about a year for the replacement to be found, but he felt this was because the provost left in the spring and it was hard to start the search for a new one during the summer.
Friedl, the current provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs, announced that after a two-and-a-half year stint at the job, he would no longer be serving in the position and plans on going back to teaching in the political science department next fall, where he is tenured.
Friedl declined to be interviewed, but Chancellor Roger Brown said Friedl would be taking next semester off.
"We have a policy for when a senior administrator desires to return to the faculty, they have one semester to prepare to return to teaching," Brown said. This is so they will have time to talk to the department in which they will teach, decide what courses they want to teach and have some time to prepare to re-enter the classroom, Brown said.
Brown said that he has begun looking internally to place someone as an acting provost until a replacement for Friedl can be found.
Brown has asked the deans and department heads to make nominations, either of themselves or another dean or department head, for acting provost. After this person is put into place by Jan. 1, he will begin the search for a permanent replacement.
"I am currently leaning toward hiring a national search firm, such as the one who ran the chancellor search, then they will work with a committee of faculty and students to screen candidates for the semester," Brown said. He added that he hoped to have someone in place by July 1, 2006, but it may take longer.
Herbert Burhenn, dean of the college of arts and sciences, said he also thinks the hope is to have someone in place before school starts back next fall, but that things don't always work out that way.
"I suspect we'll interview candidates this spring," Burhenn said. "Whether we'll find someone satisfactory is anybody's guess."
Brown said: "We'll take as long as it takes. If by then we don't have someone that we're all confident is the best person for the job, then we'll keep searching."
Brown said he did not expect to see any negative implications of Friedl's choice to leave when the acting provost takes over.
"I believe that this person will be …. someone who is very well respected and who knows the university very well," Brown said.
Brown said he did not know Friedl's personal decision for quitting, but only that he indicated to him that he was ready to return to his position as a faculty member.
Burhenn added that last time a provost left, it took about a year for the replacement to be found, but he felt this was because the provost left in the spring and it was hard to start the search for a new one during the summer.
