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Search in high gear for Kenny's replacement
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|  | | By Lee Lutz | | |
October 08, 2008 | 05:06 PM
The committee charged with finding Stony Brook University's next president is making progress. Richard Nasti, who heads the search committee as chair of the Stony Brook University Council, said last week an educational search firm has been retained and the committee is establishing the criteria for nominees.
"I was very impressed with the spirit and determination of all the members to find the next, great president of Stony Brook," Nasti wrote in an email after the committee's first meeting. He said the search firm Russell Reynolds has been hired to assist.
"Russell Reynolds has a terrific education practice and generally deals with top AAU universities," wrote Nasti (SBU '78). "In fact, the firm is completing a search for the presidency of Johns Hopkins."
Nasti, of New York City, described a process to "develop a profile for the position, recruit and interview great candidates, and then recommend candidates to the Stony Brook Council which must then forward three candidates to the chancellor and SUNY Board of Directors." It is the SUNY board and the chancellor — itself a vacant office, although reports indicate a decision may be reached soon to fill that position — which make the final choice.
Previously Nasti had said he hoped the search committee could complete its work early in 2009 and a replacement selected before retiring SBU President Shirley Strum Kenny leaves in July.
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