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Indiana University names finalists for Bloomington campus chancellor
March 14, 2001
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University today (March 14) announced the three finalists for the position of chancellor of the Bloomington campus.
All three candidates will be interviewed from 9 a.m. to approximately 6 p.m. on Friday (March 16) by the university trustees in an executive session in the president's suite in the University Place Conference Center on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.
The finalists are:
• Sharon Stephens Brehm, provost of Ohio University since 1996. Brehm helps manage a budget of $330 million at Ohio University, which had a fall 1999 enrollment of more than 19,000 students on the main Athens campus alone.
Prior to her Ohio University post, she was dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Binghamton and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas.
She holds a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology from Duke University and a master's degree in social relations (clinical psychology) from Harvard University. She completed her bachelor's degree in psychology in 1967 at Duke, graduating magna cum laude.
• Richard Edwards, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the chief comprehensive research and graduate institution in the state. Edwards not only oversees academic and internal university affairs, he is responsible for the University of Nebraska Press and is a principal participant in development, alumni and donor relations.
He previously served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky and chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Edwards holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. degree (economics) from Harvard University. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1966 at Grinnell College.
• Cora Bagley Marrett, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Marrett has oversight for nine schools and colleges as well as the university's libraries.
Marrett has been an active member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, serving most recently on the organization's Commission on Engineering and Technical systems.
She holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Marrett earned her bachelor's degree, also in sociology, from Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va.
The candidates were selected from a pool of 50 applicants. Each has been interviewed by a wide group of faculty, staff and students on the Bloomington campus, as well as by officials at IU's other regional campuses.
The Bloomington chancellor will act as chief administrative officer of the campus, overseeing internal and external functions, as well as acting as the top academic official. The search committee, which had more than 30 members, sought candidates who demonstrated they have "experience and judgment to be the leader of the campus," said George E. Walker, IU vice president for research and graduate schools.
Committee members also looked for candidates who showed exceptional academic credibility and demonstrated they can work with diverse constituencies, build consensus, and navigate the complexities of a major university campus, according to Walker.
The new chancellor will fill the post being vacated by the June 30 retirement of Kenneth Gros Louis. Gros Louis has been the Bloomington campus' chief executive for 21 years, appointing almost every major administrator now serving there.
(Susan Dillman, 812-856-9035 or 812-334-6377, sdillman@indiana.edu)