UNC announces search committee for new chancellor

The University today announced the membership of the committee that will be charged with recommending a new chancellor to replace Holden Thorp. It will meet first Oct. 5

The committee will be chaired by Wade Hargrove, chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Other membership includes:

- Trustees John Townsend and Don Curtis

- Former trustee Roger Perry

- Student Body President Will Leimenstoll

- Michael Bertucci, president of UNC’s Graduate and Professional Student Federation

- Jan Boxill, chairwoman of the faculty

- Professors Valerie Ashby, Kevin Guskiewicz, John McGowan, Cam Patterson and Douglas Shackelford

- Jackie Overton, chairwoman of the Employee Forum

- Dwayne Pinkney, vice provost for finance and academic planning

- Kenneth Broun, former Chapel Hill mayor and former dean of UNC’s law school

- Eric Montross, chairman of the General Alumni Association Board of Directors and sports commentator

- Chuck Lovelace, executive director of the Morehead-Cain Foundation

- Dwight Stone, UNC alumni and president of D. Stone Builders Inc. and chairman of the Educational Foundation Inc.’s Executive Board of Directors

- Richard Vinroot, former Charlotte mayor