Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs Dean Search Update #2

To All Members of the Carleton Community,

I am pleased to announce the constitution of the advisory search committee for the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs. Thank you to all who submitted nominations for membership on this committee.

This advisory committee to the president held its first meeting on Nov. 21 and will continue to meet throughout the winter semester to review applications and interview candidates. The intended start date for the new dean is July 1, 2019.

We have retained executive search consultant Colleen Keenan from Odgers Berndtson Executive Search to assist us. You are welcome to submit nominations or suggestions to our search consultant regarding the challenges and opportunities you think the dean will face, and the ideal qualities and skills you think the committee should consider when reviewing candidates. Suggestions can be sent to carletonfgpa@odgersberndtson.com by Friday, Nov. 30.

The members of the committee are:

• Jerry Tomberlin, Interim Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and Chair, FGPA Dean Advisory Search Committee
• Mohamed Al Guindy, Assistant Professor, Sprott School of Business (faculty representative)
• Rafik Goubran, Vice-President (Research and International) (senior administration representative)
• Jay Jennings, Institute of Cognitive Science (PhD student representative)
• Jonathan Malloy, Professor, Department of Political Science (faculty representative)
• Lin Moody, Graduate Communications and Strategic Enrolment Officer, FGPA (professional services staff representative)
• Julie Murray, Associate Professor and Supervisor of Graduate Studies, Department of English (faculty representative)
• Sangeeta Murugkar, Associate Professor, Department of Physics (faculty representative)
• Dorina Petriu, Chancellor’s Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering (faculty representative)
• André Plourde, Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs (dean representative)
• TBD (master’s student representative)

Committee support: Colleen Keenan, Executive Search Consultant, Odgers Berndtson; Adele Haar, Manager, Talent Acquisition and Organizational Development (Human Resources representative); Rosemary O’Hearn, Executive Assistant to the Provost and Vice-President (Academic).

We will continue to provide you with updates as the search progresses. All updates will also be posted on Carleton’s Academic Executive Search website.

Sincerely yours,

Jerry Tomberlin
Chair
FGPA Dean Advisory Search Committee