To be held at UPC on December 10 from 2:00 - 3:30pm in the Davidson Conference Center, Board Room and at
HSC on December 11 from 9:00 - 10:30am in the ZNI Building, Room 112 (Herklotz Conference Room)
"To provide the Faculty an Opportunity to Inform the Presidential Search Committee"
With Steven Sample’s announcement last month that he will step down in August 2010 after 19 years as USC’s president, the Board of Trustees has appointed a committee of trustees and faculty to search for a new leader for the University. Do you have answers to the following questions—or other ideas and suggestions—that you’d like to share with the search committee?
1. If you were being recruited now to come to USC, what would make you choose this institution over another?
2. What are USC’s best “selling points” in recruiting a new president?
3. What challenges will USC’s next president face?
4. What kind of place would you like USC to be in ten years? In twenty years?
5. What will it take to get into the top ten of American research Universities?
6. What doesn’t work at USC? If you could change or fix anything about the university, what would you do?
7. If given the opportunity, what advice would you give to our next president?
8. What are the most important personal or professional characteristics you think we should seek in our next president?
To share your thoughts in person with members of the search committee and other trustees, attend one of the Faculty Assemblies being convened by the Academic Senate at the dates and time mentioned above.
To aid our planning for refreshments and room arrangements, the Senate’s administrator would appreciate receiving an RSVP by December 4 to Connie Roque at croque@usc.edu/213 740 7169
