In a campus-wide email sent Thursday, Idaho State Board of Education member Emma Atchley said the search for a new University of Idaho president is coming along to select top candidates by March.
The process began after Staben announced last May that his contract would not be renewed following the conclusion of the 2019 fiscal year, which ends in June. Staben was also was approved academic transition leave for the fall in anticipation of teaching biology courses next year.
Atchley said the Presidential Review Committee met with and reviewed applications for candidates. The committee will conduct the first round of interviews in the coming week, after which five candidates will be named, she said.
The five top candidates will visit the Moscow campus around the first of March, she said.
She said the search website “will continue to have feedback capability.”
“While the candidates may not be taken on statewide tours like prior searches you may remember, we want to give the faculty, staff and students at our centers the opportunity to meet the candidates through regional ZOOM meetings and to provide their valuable feedback,” Atchely said.
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