Following an extensive screening process, Union College trustees have engaged Academic Search Consultation Service, of Washington, DC, to assist the presidential search process, search chair Frank Messa announced on March 31.
Academic Search is the premiere organization in the United States serving the chief executive officer and chief academic officer search needs of American higher education. With over a quarter century of service, and well over 600 former clients, the experience and expertise of Academic Search are unequalled. (www.academic-search.org)
Utilizing an executive search model fashioned specifically for higher education, Academic Search provides an extensive array of coordinated search services for client institutions. The firm will begin work immediately to craft a compelling position description and begin the candidate outreach process.
Persons wishing to pass suggestions and nominations to the search committee are encouraged to do so via the search site on the Union College web www.unionsearch.org
Dr. Barbara E. Taylor is a senior consultant with the Academic Search Consultation Service in Washington, D.C. Before joining Academic Search, she served for 12 years as Director and then Vice President for Programs and Research at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Before and since joining Academic Search, she has served as a consultant to more than 100 colleges, universities, and other non-profit organizations in executive search as well as governing board development, board-president and board-faculty relations, strategic planning, and assessing institutional condition.