University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors Chair Liz Pierre announced the Southeastern Louisiana University Presidential Search Committee, the group is responsible for reviewing applications, interviewing candidates, and recommending finalists for the presidency.
The finalists will ultimately be interviewed and a president selected by the full UL System Board of Supervisors.
UL System President and CEO Jim Henderson will chair the committee as a non-voting member. The committee includes select System Board members and the Southeastern Faculty Senate president as voting members as well as non-voting community members to serve in an advisory capacity.
The committee’s first meeting is public and will take place Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. in the Cate Teacher Education Center Lecture Hall, Room 1021-22 on Southeastern’s campus and will be streamed live on the UL System YouTube Channel. During that meeting the committee will vote to accept their charge and the search timeline after hearing from the university’s constituencies. Information regarding the search will be housed on the System’s website at ulsystem.edu/southeastern-search.
Committee members are: Dr. Jim Henderson, Search Committee Chair and UL System President, non-voting; Liz Pierre, UL System Board Chair; Dr. Jimmy Clarke, UL System Board Vice Chair; Brad Stevens, UL System Board Parliamentarian; Ethan Estis, UL System Student Board Member; Jo Lethermon, UL System Board Member; Al Perkins, UL System Board Member; Julie Stokes, UL System Board Member; Dr. Erin Horzelski, Southeastern Faculty Senate President; Toby Cortez, Southeastern Foundation President, non-voting; Louis Nick Joseph, Community Representative, non-voting; Stephanie Stafford Kropog, Southeastern Alumni Association President, non-voting; Wallace Lewis, Southeastern Foundation Board Member, non-voting; Baileigh Picou, Southeastern SGA President, non-voting; Carla Tate, Community Representative, non-voting; and Allen Waddell, Southeastern Athletic Foundation Chairman, non-voting.
President John Crain announced his intent to retire at the end of this academic year.
