Next Steps:
1. Sending out presidential specifications
a. Sent to nominators
b. Sent to potential candidates
c. Used in an advertisement
2. Presenting candidate biographical information to Board of Trustees
a. Late March
b. Search committee will decide which candidates to meet
3. Meeting candidates
a. Late April, early May
4. Board of Trustees appoint successor
a. Possibly during May
b. Ideally before June 30, when Gora steps down
The search for Ball State’s next president continues as 250-300 potential candidates will receive information about the university and presidency.
Baker and Associates, the search firm conducting the search, released the candidate specifications detailing hopes of a visionary candidate with bold dreams for Ball State.
“Ball State University is at an exciting point in its history,” the document says. “The new president will be expected to continue to build on the many fine qualities of the university, become personally vested in its future, continue to raise the university profile, and carry this important message throughout the state of Indiana and beyond.”
Specific qualifications include a terminal degree and managerial or administrative experience.
Jerry Baker, president of Baker and Associates, said he sends the document out to those who can nominate candidates and to those he hopes will consider the position.
“We could not begin to get everything in writing,” Baker said. “Some comments are in position description, others are just things we will think about. Unofficially and officially, we will continue to use what we heard.”
While every search is “fluid and flexible,” Baker hopes to have President Jo Ann Gora’s successor ready for July 1, after Gora retires on June 30.
Ideally, he said he would like to see the Board of Trustees appoint a successor even earlier, during the month of May.
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