Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
PORTALES – a 10-member Presidential Search Committee consisting of Eastern New Mexico University faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members will assist in the search for the university’s next chancellor.
The Board of Regents approved the committee’s membership on April 22.
“Organizations across the ENMU System appointed representatives” to serve on the committee, according to an ENMU news release.
The regents plan to hire the University’s 12th president at the conclusion of the search, which should be sometime in the fall of 2022, the news release stated.
Chancellor and President Patrice Caldwell has been serving since spring 2020 and has postponed her retirement until a new president is chosen.
“We are pleased with the strength and diversity of this advisory committee,” Board President Lance Pyle said in the news release. “They know the University well, and they understand what ENMU seeks in its next best leader.”
The Regents on April 22 also selected an executive search firm, EFL Associates of Kansas City, Mo., pending a finalized contract agreement, to work with the search committee and the regents to recruit and review candidates.
The presidential search committee members include:
* Elizabeth Acosta, assistant athletic director of Student Success and senior woman administrator for ENMU Athletics at ENMU-Portales.
* Mary Ayala, dean of ENMU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ENMU-Portales.
* Stephanie Beinlich, president of the ENMU Faculty Senate and assistant professor of Music, ENMU-Portales.
* Phillip Bustos, vice president of the Board of Regents and Search Committee chair.
* John Crates, president of the ENMU Professional Senate and budget analyst, ENMU-Portales.
* Todd DeKay, executive director of Institutional Effectiveness, ENMU-Roswell.
* Patricia Dobson, chair of the Department of Communication, professor of Communication and graduate coordinator for Communication, ENMU-Portales.
* Steve Doerr, president of the ENMU Foundation.
* Alan Garrett, professor of Secondary Education and Education Foundations, ENMU-Portales.
* David Hemley, professor of Finance, College of Business, ENMU-Portales.
* Russell Johnson, president of the ENMU Support Senate and executdive assistant to the system chief information officer, ENMU-Portales.
* Jamie Laurenz, viice president of Academic Affairs, ENMU-Portales.
* Trish Maguire, president of the ENMU Alumni Association Board of Directors
* Stephen Miller, professor and director of the Information Technology/Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, ENMU-Ruidoso.
* Oscar Robinson, councilor, Portales City Council.
* Trish Ruiz, ENMU regent.
* Tamia Smith, student body president, ENMU-Portales.
* Suzanne Swift, chair of the Department of Health and Human Services, professor of Communicative Disorders and director of the Communicative Disorders program, ENMU-Portales.
