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From: Art Wroble <artwroble@yahoo.com>
Date: October 24, 2012 8:08:11 PM CDT
To: GatorNews <gatornews@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [gatornews] Presidential Search Update - October 24, 2012
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Dear UF Alumni Association Members, Please see the message below about the UF Presidential Search process. Go Gators and thank you, Danita D. Nias, Life Member Executive Director October 24, 2012 To:  University of Florida Friends and Family Re:  Presidential Search Update At the start of our search for the University of Florida's next president, we mentioned there would be various opportunities for engagement throughout the search process. We have reached another point when we need your valuable input. During the past few months, our search consultant Jan Greenwood has been reaching out to potential candidates to tell them UF's great story and our hopes for the next president.   That outreach will continue until our search consultant identifies a pool of candidates and forwards it to the Presidential Search Committee for consideration.  The Search Committee then must select the best qualified candidates to be brought to Gainesville for interviews. While we do not know when that will happen, we expect the campus interviews to occur very soon after we receive the candidates' names in order to keep the University of Florida's search moving at this time of high demand for university leadership. There are more than 20 other research universities searching for a president at this time, and about 10 of them are likely to be interested in the same caliber of potential candidates as UF.  For that reason, we are trying to prepare in advance for these important interviews. The Presidential Search Committee is requesting your input into the development of the questions we will use in the interview process with candidates who come to campus. We want to know what is important to you, and what you would want to ask the candidates to help guide this important decision.  If you recall, the Search Committee and Board of Trustees approved a list of desired qualifications and criteria, which can be found under the Position Profile tab on the Presidential Search website at http://list.uff.ufl.edu/t/1170150/6632863/92084/0/. This document will serve as the basis for the interviews, so please review it and develop your questions from it. You may submit your recommended questions by email to presidentsearch@ufl.edu by November 7th.  The Search Committee will review and consider the submissions as it develops its questions for the interviews.    In addition to requesting your help with developing questions, we have an update on last week's meetings of two search subcommittees. The groups were charged with gathering information from experts on how peer AAU research universities similar in complexity, size and scope to UF handle presidential housing and compensation.  Mercer, a national and international expert  in compensation and human resources, shared that 82 percent of peer universities provide a house for their presidents and that the range of total compensation packages, within the 25th to 75th percentiles of compensation,  for peer public university presidents is between $666,000 and $820,000. We are sensitive to all public concerns involving compensation, particularly in these economic times and the Compensation Subcommittee noted this in their discussion.  At the same time, the Subcommittee also noted, and we recognize, that we will need to provide a market-competitive compensation package to attract the strong leader needed by UF, one of the five most complex, broad-scope and large-scale AAU research universities in the nation. To meet those concerns, we will need to properly correlate market analysis with the qualifications and demand for the selected candidate. Both reports, have been provided to the full Presidential Search Committee and Board of Trustees so that the Board will have the necessary market foundation when determining compensation. All of the measures included in today's update are important components of the search process. I want you to know that we continue to hear from the search consultant that there is a lot of excitement and interest in both UF and the President's position among leaders of AAU and other major research universities. I remain confident in our ability to find a strong, visionary leader for our great university.  Thank you for your continuing support of this important search for the next President of University of Florida. Sincerely, C. David Brown, II Chairman UF Board of Trustees and UF Presidential Search Committee

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