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UM search envisions `large' field Candidates prefer confidentiality; consultant advises secrecy needed.
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Columbia Daily Tribune
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April 24, 2007
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The University of Missouri Board of Curators would like to compile
a short list of finalists for president in the next month.
In that time frame, the board and executive search consultant
Jerry Baker plan to pick the top candidates and meet with them. The
curators will decide on three to five finalists, perhaps by the end
of May.
At an organizational meeting of the UM Presidential Search
Advisory Committee yesterday, Baker described the current pool of
nominees as quite broad, including candidates from higher education
as well as business and government leaders.
"We have very talented men and women from a whole variety of
sectors," Baker said.
The list continues to grow.
"We are in ...