An Ohio University search committee will conduct airport interviews in Columbus later this week with seven candidates for the university's top finance job.
The committee, which is working with national search firm Baker and Associates, received 17 applications to replace Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Bill Decatur.
Decatur left OU in January to become executive vice president of the Rhode Island School of Design, an art college onetenth the size of OU.
The search committee, led by Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit, hopes to recommend at least three finalists to OU President Roderick McDavis by early Spring Quarter.
The search committee has been making good progress
said Becky Watts, McDavis' chief of staff. The goal would be to have the on-campus interviews a week (after the airport interviews).
Joe McLaughlin, chairman of Faculty Senate said, The committee is working very well together.
In November, then-Associate Vice President for Finance Michael Angelini was named Decatur's interim replacement. Angelini is earning $175,000 in his temporary post. Decatur, one of OU's highest paid administrators, earned $245,725 a year.
The vice president for Finance and Administration is the university's top financial officer, overseeing the university budget and institutional policies. The position reports directly to McDavis.
This search isn't the first time OU has hired Baker and Associates to help replace a top administrator.
Last winter, OU hired the firm to find a new executive vice president and provost to replace Kathy Krendl - who left to become the president of Otterbein College. Baker and Associates will earn an estimated $60,000 for the current search.
The university's search committee first met in December and has created a job description and reviewed applications for the position.
It's hard to schedule when you have faculty members and staff members and students coming together to work on a project Watts said. They have been so giving of their time even on the weekends. We are very grateful to them for their hard work.
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