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North Park University to Continue Presidential Search
CHICAGO, IL (May 16, 2005) - The search will continue for a candidate to
become president of North Park University, it was announced this
afternoon by the Board of Trustees following a meeting of the board this
weekend.
The board action follows the presidential search committee's report that
it has not identified a person to recommend to the board. The board
further indicated that there are no candidates currently being
considered by the committee.
Originally, the names of three candidates were announced, although one
of those candidates, Jonathan R. Heintzelman, vice president for
advancement at Loyola University, withdrew his name from consideration
on May 2. The remaining candidates were Kurt F. Geisinger, vice
president for academic affairs and a tenured professor at the University
of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and John E. Phelan Jr., president, dean
and professor of biblical literature at North Park Theological Seminary.
Bruce Bickner, chair of the Board of Trustees and acting chief executive
officer, said that the rules of confidentiality adopted by the search
committee and board did not allow for any specifics of their
deliberations to be made public.
He did clarify the selection process that the committee worked through
with their initial three finalists. "We had strong consensus to move the
candidates from the semifinalist to the finalist stage," Bickner said,
"but that did not mean that we were saying that one or any of the three
finalists would necessarily be the recommended candidate."
The committee will meet again in late summer or early fall and plans to
present a candidate to the board on a timetable consistent with approval
by the Evangelical Covenant Church during its Annual Meeting in June 2006.
Due in part to changes in board membership and inclusion of student
representatives, there have been subsequent changes to the search
committee. The 13-member presidential search committee charged with
presenting a candidate to the board includes the following: Joe Alulis,
Ann Alvarez, Philip Anderson, Bruce Bickner, Gregory Crawford, Sara Jo
Forsman, Janet Johnson, Arthur Nelson, Glenn Palmberg, Armour Swanson,
Ted VanDerMeid, and two student representatives to be named later - one
representing the university and one representing the seminary.
Until a candidate is identified by the search committee and approved by
the Board of Trustees and the Evangelical Covenant Church, a
three-member team will manage daily operations at the university,
including Carl Balsam, Jay Phelan and Dan Tepke as members of the Office
of the President. Bruce Bickner, who chairs the university Board of
Trustees, will continue to serve as the institution's chief executive
officer.
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