Incoming University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson gets high marks in campus feedback thegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
5/2/21
New University of Iowa president Barbara Wilson is already proving to be much more popular than her predecessor.
That’s according to feedback released by the Iowa Board of Regents following the announcement of Wilson’s hiring on Friday. Of the 320 people who submitted feedback…including faculty, staff, students and other community members…Wilson had an 80% approval rating. That’s the highest among the four finalists interviewed by the Regents.
Wendy F. Hensel, Georgia State University provost, had a 73% approval rating, while Penn State Law Dean Hari Osofsky received a 63% positive rating.
The only candidate with a negative rating from respondents was UI College of Education dean Dan Clay, who earned only a 36% approval rating.
Iowa s Board of Regents unanimously appointed Wisconsin native Barbara Wilson, who has spent two decades at Illinois, as the 22nd University of Iowa president.
Iowa City Press-Citizen
After seven months, 79 applicants and four finalists who have taken turns answering questions in public, the University of Iowa is going to get a new president Friday afternoon.
Barbara Wilson, Daniel Clay, Hari Osofsky and Wendy Hensel
two career academics and two Ivy League-educated lawyers emerged as the finalists to replace Bruce Harreld. All hold high-level academic degrees and have built careers as professors, researchers and scholars. But each presents a unique set of experiences for the Board of Regents to consider as it makes the final choice.
A 21-person university search committee wrote the job description and selected its ideal candidates, coming up with a pool of finalists who won t repeat the controversy of the 2015 search that led to Harreld s hiring. Then, the university faced blowback for hiring an IBM executive with no experience in academic administration; at the time, only 2.6% of UI community members surveyed b
Public input on University of Iowa presidential finalists to go to regents Thursday thegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.