Interviews in Progress
June 5, 2009
To the Williams Community,
Since we last reported, the Presidential Search Committee has been very active.
With the help of our search firm, Isaacson, Miller, we have been building an impressive pool of candidates. Every segment of the Williams community has submitted names for our consideration, and we are extremely grateful for this guidance. We continue to encourage you to recommend qualified candidates, which you can do at www.williams.edu/admin/president/search/comments.
The Committee has followed up on submitted names and held frequent conference calls to review the pool. We gathered in Williamstown yesterday to review our progress to date.
That progress, we are glad to report, has been substantial. We have held almost 40 meetings with potential candidates. Small teams representing each segment of our membership — students, trustees, faculty, and staff — have traveled across the country to talk personally with the men and women who aspire to lead Williams in the years ahead.
We will now conduct follow-up interviews with the most promising candidates prior to submitting the results of our work to the Board of Trustees, which has the responsibility of naming the next President.
Because of the vagaries of scheduling, it is difficult to say how long this next phase will take, but we will keep you posted as we go forward.
Greg Avis ’80
Chair, 2009 Presidential Search Committee
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