{"71092":{"#nid":"71092","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Presidential Search Committee Begins Work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe search for Georgia Tech\u0027s next president officially kicked off Tuesday, August 12, 2008. That\u0027s when the 20-member presidential search committee received marching orders from Board of Regents\u0027 Chair Richard Tucker, Regent Willis Potts, who is chair of the search committee, and Susan Herbst, University System of Georgia (USG) executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe search committee heard details on the upcoming search process and be formally charged with its mission from Tucker, Potts and Herbst in a meeting on the Tech campus in Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We have a truly excellent committee now in place,\u0022 said Tucker. \u0022I look forward to seeing the results of the committee\u0027s work, and feel confident that we will be able to locate a president who will further enhance Georgia Tech\u0027s prominence in national and international higher education.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Board of Regents has engaged R. William Funk and Associates, Dallas, Texas, to serve as the search firm for the committee. The company was selected to aid in the search from a number of national higher education executive recruiters.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe national search will replace former Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough, who stepped down on June 30 to become the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETucker announced the membership of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/search\/committee.html\u0022\u003ETech presidential search committee\u003C\/a\u003E in July.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"In an Aug. 12 meeting on the Georgia Tech campus, the 20-member search committee received orders for its national search to replace former President G. Wayne Clough.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Twenty-member committee convened on Tech campus"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2008-08-11 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:15","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71093":{"id":"71093","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894628","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:48"}},"media_ids":["71093"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/president\/search\/","title":"GT Presidential Search Site"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"288","name":"Leadership"},{"id":"1271","name":"President"},{"id":"1354","name":"regents"},{"id":"167751","name":"search"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}