A 15-member search committee will begin looking for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s next chancellor early next year, the UT System announced Monday.
In November, Chancellor Steve Angle, who has led the university for the past 11 years, announced he would be stepping down from his leadership role to join the faculty beginning Jan. 1.
UTC College of Business Dean Robert Dooley was named interim chancellor later that month.
The search committee — chaired by Yancy Freeman, the chancellor of the University of Tennessee at Martin, who previously worked at UTC for 31 years — will launch its search in January and hopes to name a chancellor in June, a news release said.
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The committee includes representatives from the UT board of trustees and faculty, staff, students and alumni. Here are its members:
— Yancy Freeman
— Tiffany Carpenter, UT System vice president for communications and marketing
— Beth Crawford, UTC Faculty Senate president, professor, department head and programs advisor for UTC’s learning and leadership programs
— Jay Dale, Chattanooga market president of First Horizon Bank and UTC alum
— Jordan Fall, UTC Student Government Association president
— Brent Goldberg, UTC vice chancellor for finance and administration
— Ken Jones, UTC Alumni Board president and senior director of procurement, vendor relations and minority and women-owned business at EPB
— Susan Lazenby, chair of the UTC Exempt Staff Council, interim station manager and director of web development and IT business operations at UTC
— Melita Rector, chair of the UTC Non-Exempt Staff Council and accounting specialist at UTC
— Valerie Rutledge, UTC College of Health, Education and Professional Studies dean
— Mina Sartipi, executive director of the UTC Research Institute and director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress at UTC
— David Watson, UT board of trustees member and co-owner Mountain View Auto Group
— Artanya Wesley, UTC vice chancellor of enrollment management and student affairs
— Mark Wharton, UTC vice chancellor and director of athletics
— Todd Womack, UTC Advisory Board member, vice chair of the UC Foundation and Bridge Public Affairs president and CEO
— Compiled by Shannon Coan