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The University&News
Vol. XXXV, No. IV
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
September 29, 2009
Final presidential candidates to visit UD before end of fall
Heather Nelson
Managing Editor
The committee leading the search for
the new president has narrowed a
field of 42 candidates to a short list
that will be cut to three or four candidates
within two months, University of Dallas
Board of Trustees member and chair of
the Presidential Search Committee Joe
Oscar Neuhoff announced.
In the coming weeks, a small group
of candidates will be invited to private
discussions with the committee. After
these discussions, three or four applicants
will be invited to campus for two-and-
a-half day visits to meet with "trustees,
faculty, staff, students, alumni, church
leaders and other key stakeholders," said
Neuhoff. At this point, the candidates'
names will be released to the public.
"We're planning on having campus
visits by the end of the fall semester," said
Neuhoff, in a phone interview with the
University News.
Former president Dr. Francis Lazarus
announced his intention to retire in April
2009, effective Dec. 31,2009. The board
of trustees granted Lazarus sabbatical
leave beginning Sept. 1, and Mr. Robert
Galecke was instated as the interim
University president.
Current and former col lege presidents,
provosts, chief advancement officers,
distinguished faculty, government and
corporate leaders, and others from various
professions applied for the position,
according to Neuhoff. "We have been
really pleased with both the diversity and
the breadth and depth of [the candidates']
experience in higher education and the
professions," he said. Neuhoff declined
to elaborate on the professions, genders
and ethnic backgrounds of the short list
of applicants.
The committee met for the first time
on May 20 to discuss "the major strengths
and distinctive dimensions of UD, the
Biology students present research
Jack Boyle, a senior
biology major,
presented his
summer research
on the correlation
of temperature to
molting size in female
blue crabs.
Photo by Peter
McDonough
see BIOLOGY page 5
Size at Terminal Molt
draft advertisement for the position,
recruiting and candidate identification
approaches, major challenges and
opportunities facing the University, a
tentative timeline for the search, and the
major qualifications for the position,"
according to a summary of the search
written by Neuhoff. The committee later
completed the institutional profile and
position description for the president.
This profile is available in the President's
office and will be posted on the web site
soon.
According to an advertisement
for the position, the ideal candidate
must "provide visionary leadership to
increase growth in financial resources
and enrollment, strengthen further the
University's visibility and prominence
as a key contributor to the vitality of the
greater Dallas area and beyond, and
promote academic quality." The ideal
candidate is also a practicing Catholic
"conversant with the Catholic intellectual
tradition," according to the ad.
The position description adds to the
qualifications "distinguished academic
achievements" and "active and successful
engagement within the cultural, civic,
church, economic and educational
community" of the geographical area
where his/her institution was located.
Some of the needs and challenges
agreed upon by the Presidential Search
Committee include "working toward
the development of a major fundraising
effort to address major academic, facility
improvement and endowment needs,"
according to the position description.
Qualifications also include "gaining
consensus around an institutional
identity that incorporates appropriate
emphases on and balance in the liberal
arts and professional curricula as well as
undergraduate, graduate and continuing
education."
see PRESIDENT page 4
Panel held on encyclical
Katie Prejean
Contributing Writer
On Sept. 24, students and
professors gathered to
participate in a panel discussion
on Pope Benedict XVI's most recent
encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate". Dr.
William Doyle from the economics
department, Dr. Richard Dougherty from
politics, and Dr. Mark Lowery of theology
gave presentations. All three presentations
presented a different, very comprehensive
view of Pope Benedict's encyclical,
explaining what the document means and
why it is so important,
Doyle began by presenting his
idea that Pope Benedict is positing an
entirely new concept of human rights in
the encyclical. Doyle stated that when
people discuss the "right to life," they are
talking about two sets of rights - the right
to life in itself and the duty and obligation
of others to maintain that right for their
fellow human beings. People have, then,
a specific task - they are required to do
something in order to maintain others'
right to be alive. This "bundle of rights"
exists by the simple fact that people
recognize the dignity of every human
person, which is a concept fundamental
and primary to human nature. Doyle
ended his comments by asking: "If
see CARITAS page 5
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UD hosts an exhibit of Bo
Lovelace's ceramic pieces
made with the raku firing
method.
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conflict within Congress
has left the U.S. politically
derailed.
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Nelson, Heather. The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 2009, newspaper, September 29, 2009; Irving, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth201505/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Dallas.