Haltom to Chair Search Panel for Student Affairs VP

A committee of 13 students, faculty members, a trustee and administrators led by University Secretary N. Allison Haltom will conduct the search for the new vice president for student affairs, it was announced Monday. The post is now filled on an interim basis by Jim Clack, an associate professor and director of Counseling and Psychological Services. He succeeded Janet Dickerson, who stepped down June 30 to take a similar position at Princeton University. Haltom, who also is a university vice president, said the committee will meet late this month or early in October to begin the national search. Vice chair of the search committee is Professor Steven Nowicki, of the department of zoology. Members of the panel also include trustee Sally D. Robinson, chair of the board's Student Affairs Committee; Joe Alleva, director of athletics; Jaqueline Looney, associate dean of the Graduate School; and Ellen Wittig, associate dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Other faculty members of the committee are Professor Linda K. George of the department of sociology; Professor J. Jeffrey Peirce, of civil and environmental engineering; and Professor Arlie O. Petters, of the department of mathematics. Student members are Teresa Christopher, a Trinity sophomore from West Long Branch, N.J., Brian Culang, a Trinity senior from Middleton, N.J., Jasmin French, a senior from Indianapolis; and graduate student William Tyson from Tarboro. The vice president for student affairs is responsible for the planning, management, and budgetary oversight of undergraduate and graduate student affairs, ranging from counseling and career services to international and intercultural affairs, and from residential life and student activities to the women's center and community service.