Chancellor search committee balanced several criteria
March 30, 2016
QUESTION #1
With over 40 applicants for UAF's future chancellor, not one of the four finalists
is a local Alaskan. With the intention of "growing our own" this seems unfortunate.
Was there not one viable applicant from Alaska? I am happy to see that at least 50
percent of the applicants were female.
QUESTION #2
Of the four chancellor candidates, none is from Alaska or UAF, and three of them (Tony
Haymet, Sandra Woodley and M. Duane Nellis) recently and rapidly left their last jobs
— were fired? Are they even employed now? The fourth candidate, Laura Woodworth-Ney,
has been in her current job for less than three years. Is there a reason at this critical
time we are looking for a chancellor who is unfamiliar with UAF and Alaska and is
not liable to stay here long enough to help us weather the current crisis?