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Regents start exec search
Ben Fornell - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: Metro
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The state of Iowa will pay around $45,000 to find a new executive director for the state Board of Regents, according to the board office.
On Wednesday, the Regents' Executive Director Search Committee met to discuss how the regents' office will replace Gary Steinke, who left his position as executive director of the board Nov. 1.
The committee will employ an executive search firm, panel head and Regent David Miles said, that will deliver a short list of candidates by mid- to late-March.
"That's longer than I'd prefer," he said during the meeting.
During the next week, the committee members will seek input from the regents on what qualities they want in a new executive director.
Miles said whomever the regents pick must manage the board's staff of 20 people, be adept at lobbying state legislators, and win the "trust" of the regents and the "respect" of the university presidents.
Typically, the firms who recruit executives base their rates on one-third of the position's salary; the position of executive director pays a maximum of $150,000 per year.
Mark Whitcome, the president of the Iowa Association of Staffing Professionals, said that most recruiting firms have a specialty and rely on databases of qualified professionals to find a candidate.
"It's basically a big game of whom do you know," he said.
The committee has received proposals from David Gomez and Associates of Chicago, Francis and Associates of West Des Moines, Greenwood and Associates of Miramar Beach, Fla., and Talent Acquisition of Johnston, Iowa.
Four regents sit on the selection committee: Regent President Pro Tem Miles and Regents Jenny Connolly, Jack Evans, and Bonnie Campbell. The committee selected non-board member Roger Maxwell to aid the search process.
Maxwell has taught music in high schools around the state, Miles said, until taking a position with the regents staff in 1969. He left the board in October 1995, when he served as equal-opportunity compliance officer.
"He could give us some real insight into the workings of the board staff," Miles said.
The committee will meet again after the regents meeting on Tuesday to discuss the search firm proposals, with the contract to be awarded Dec. 14.
E-mail DI reporter Ben Fornell at:
benjamin-fornell@uiowa.edu
On Wednesday, the Regents' Executive Director Search Committee met to discuss how the regents' office will replace Gary Steinke, who left his position as executive director of the board Nov. 1.
The committee will employ an executive search firm, panel head and Regent David Miles said, that will deliver a short list of candidates by mid- to late-March.
"That's longer than I'd prefer," he said during the meeting.
During the next week, the committee members will seek input from the regents on what qualities they want in a new executive director.
Miles said whomever the regents pick must manage the board's staff of 20 people, be adept at lobbying state legislators, and win the "trust" of the regents and the "respect" of the university presidents.
Typically, the firms who recruit executives base their rates on one-third of the position's salary; the position of executive director pays a maximum of $150,000 per year.
Mark Whitcome, the president of the Iowa Association of Staffing Professionals, said that most recruiting firms have a specialty and rely on databases of qualified professionals to find a candidate.
"It's basically a big game of whom do you know," he said.
The committee has received proposals from David Gomez and Associates of Chicago, Francis and Associates of West Des Moines, Greenwood and Associates of Miramar Beach, Fla., and Talent Acquisition of Johnston, Iowa.
Four regents sit on the selection committee: Regent President Pro Tem Miles and Regents Jenny Connolly, Jack Evans, and Bonnie Campbell. The committee selected non-board member Roger Maxwell to aid the search process.
Maxwell has taught music in high schools around the state, Miles said, until taking a position with the regents staff in 1969. He left the board in October 1995, when he served as equal-opportunity compliance officer.
"He could give us some real insight into the workings of the board staff," Miles said.
The committee will meet again after the regents meeting on Tuesday to discuss the search firm proposals, with the contract to be awarded Dec. 14.
E-mail DI reporter Ben Fornell at:
benjamin-fornell@uiowa.edu
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posted 11/29/07 @ 9:46 AM CST
The board of regents is a big joke.
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