Chancellor search committee balanced several criteria

March 30, 2016

Carla Browning

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?