Candidates selected for Health Services director
Syracuse University Health Services just finished the interviewing process for a director and is now moving into the formal decision-making process for the three candidates.
Rebecca Dayton, associate vice president of student affairs for health and wellness, said in an email that Health Services will likely offer the position to a candidate in the next few weeks, but that there was currently no new information. She would not release the names of the candidates.
In December, Kathy VanVechten, special assistant to the director of Health Services, said Health Services ‘absolutely’ expected to assign a new director during the spring semester. There are three weeks left in the spring semester.
The search for a Health Services director began in September 2009, when former Director James Jacobs took a job as the director of health services at Ohio State University, according to a Nov. 9, 2009, article in The Daily Orange.
In September 2009, SU placed advertisements in national forums, such as the Chronicle of Higher Education and the American College Health Association. SU wanted to make the search national, as opposed to only focusing on existing employees, to encompass a large applicant pool, Dayton said in the article.
Once the committee chooses the finalists, it will bring them to campus to be interviewed, Dayton said in the article. At that point, there will be an open forum for the candidates to present their qualifications and plans to students, faculty and staff to be evaluated.
The search committee is co-chaired by Colleen Bench, director of the Parents Office, and Cory Wallack, director of the Counseling Center. Members from across the university community interested in how Health Services runs, such as representatives from the Office of Academic Affairs and the Department of Recreation Services, are also included, according to the article.
Wallack and Bench could not be reached for comment for this article.
Published on April 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm
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