OSU names presidential search panel

STILLWATER — A national search for Oklahoma State University's next president will involve 38 people representing faculty, staff, students, alumni, regents and community leaders.

The Presidential Search Committee will seek out and recommend candidates to succeed OSU President Burns Hargis, who will retire in July. The committee aims to name a successor by the end of the academic year on June 30, according to a news release.

Joe D. Hall, of the Oklahoma A& M Board of Regents, will chair the committee. Hall, an OSU alumnus, was part of the selection process that installed Hargis as president in 2008.

“I am pleased with the diversity and variety of the members and their willingness to engage in this meaningful task,” Hall said in a statement.

National search firm Buffin/Baker will assist the board of regents and the search committee.

The committee first will develop a position profile to outline desired qualities and characteristics of the next president. The group represents administrators from the Stillwater campus, as well as representatives from the OSU Center for Health Sciences, OSU- Tulsa, OSU- OKC and the OSU Institute of Technology in Okmulgee. It also includes four students, four faculty members and a staff employee.

Other members of the committee include Stillwater Mayor Will

Joyce, former Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker, OSU men's basketball coach Mike Boynton and Sean Kouplen, Oklahoma secretary of commerce and workforce development.

Search Committee

• OSU/A&M Regents: Chair Joe Hall, Calvin Anthony, Rick Davis, Dr. Trudy Milner.

• OSU – Stillwater faculty: Pamela Lovern, Heather Fahlenkamp, Beatrix Haggard, Jose Sagarnaga.

• OSU students: Jaden Kasitz, Luke Muller, Maegan Berg, Jada Lusk.

• OSU – Stillwater staff: Tashia Cheves.

• OSU/A&M Board of Regents staff: Jason Ramsey.

• OSU – Stillwater administrator: Kyle Wray.

• Vice President of Institutional Diversity: Jason Kirksey.

• OSU Athletics Department representative: Chad Weiberg.

• OSUIT representative: Scott Newman.

• OSU – Oklahoma City representative: Steve Collins.

• OSU – Center for Health Sciences representative: Sherrita Sweet.

• OSU – Tulsa representative: Brett Lessley.

• OSU Foundation President: Blaire Atkinson.

• OSU Alumni Association representative: Tony LoPresto.

• City of Stillwater representative: Mayor Will Joyce.

• At-large representatives: Bill John Baker, Mike Boynton, Joe Eastin, Kay Ferguson, Terry Stuart Forst, Jay Helm, Helen Hodges, Dr. Brett Jameson, Ross McKnight, Malone Mitchell, Rodd Moesel, Carl Thoma, Lou Watkins, Sean Kouplen.