IWU names search committee for next president

Posted on September 4, 2019
IWU’s interim president is Georgia Nugent. (WJBC File Photo)

 

By Neil Doyle

BLOOMINGTON – Illinois Wesleyan University has named a 12-member search committee to find the school’s 20th president.

The committee includes members of the Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, and a student:

  • Thomas Lawrence, Board of Trustees vice chair and is a retired tax managing partner of Ernst & Young LLP, Chicago
  • Herbert A. Getz, president of Aspen Creek Partners Inc., Naperville
  • Colleen Kannaday, president, Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, Normal
  • Michael Mason, senior vice president–chief security officer, Verizon Communications, Lebanon, N.J.
  • Sundeep V. Mullangi, managing director in investment research, PPM America, Chicago
  • Dr. Laura C. Randolph, plastic surgeon, Bloomington
  • Steven J. Wannemacher vice chair of the board, Heritage Enterprises Inc., Bloomington
  • Mary Coleman, associate professor and chair of philosophy
  • Abigail Kerr, associate professor of psychology and chair of neuroscience
  • Kevin Sullivan, associate dean of Curricular and Faculty Development, professor of religion
  • Michael Thompson, associate vice president for institutional research, planning and evaluation
  • Student representative Lok Wah Chook ’22, a nursing major from Bloomington

IWU said it will use international search firm WittKieffer.

In June, the Board of Trustees named Georgia Nugent as IWU’s interim president. Nugent took over for Eric Jensen who announced his retirement in May.

Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]

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