{"id":1539,"date":"2014-10-20T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/?post_type=nshe_news&#038;p=1539"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:31:08","slug":"three-candidates-named-for-unlv-presidency","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/news\/2014\/10\/three-candidates-named-for-unlv-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Three candidates named for UNLV presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three finalists for the presidency of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas were named during the Board of Regents ad hoc UNLV President Search Committee meeting today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The candidates are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Dr. Ricardo Azziz, MD&nbsp;<\/strong>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/system.nevada.edu\/tasks\/sites\/Nshe\/assets\/File\/PressReleases\/Azziz-Combined%20Information.pdf?utm_source=Oct+20+-3+UNLV+Candidates&amp;utm_campaign=10%252F20+UNLV+candidates&amp;utm_medium=archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Azziz&#8217;s Bio<\/a><br>President, Georgia Regents University<br>Chief Executive Officer, Georgia Regents Health System<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Dr. Len M. Jessup&nbsp;<\/strong>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/system.nevada.edu\/tasks\/sites\/Nshe\/assets\/File\/PressReleases\/Jessup-Combined%20Information.pdf?utm_source=Oct+20+-3+UNLV+Candidates&amp;utm_campaign=10%252F20+UNLV+candidates&amp;utm_medium=archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Jessup&#8217;s Bio<\/a><br>Dean of Eller College of Management, University of Arizona<br>Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Halle Chair in Leadership<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>John Valery White, J.D.&nbsp;<\/strong>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/system.nevada.edu\/tasks\/sites\/Nshe\/assets\/File\/PressReleases\/White-Combined%20Information.pdf?utm_source=Oct+20+-3+UNLV+Candidates&amp;utm_campaign=10%252F20+UNLV+candidates&amp;utm_medium=archive\">Dr. White&#8217;s Bio<\/a><br>Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three finalists will visit the UNLV community during the week of Nov. 10-14. Members of the community are invited to attend the public forums that will be held for each candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee will reconvene on Nov. 17-18 to interview the finalists and to make a recommendation for consideration by the full Board of Regents at a date and time to be determined by the Board of Regents Chair Kevin J. Page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The candidates were selected based on the process and criteria set forth by the committee with input from UNLV and community advisory members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee is chaired by Regent Mark Doubrava and includes regents Cedric Crear, Dr. Jason Geddes, Kevin J. Page, Rick Trachok and Michael B. Wixom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advisory members to the committee include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dr. Tony Alamo<\/li><li>Robert Boughner<\/li><li>Brendan Bussmann<\/li><li>Nate Bynum<\/li><li>Kirk Clausen<\/li><li>Alex Culley<\/li><li>Juan Duhart<\/li><li>Ken Evans<\/li><li>Dr. Juanita Fain<\/li><li>Dr. Liam Frink<\/li><li>Dr. Brent Hathaway<\/li><li>Pam Hicks<\/li><li>John Hunt<\/li><li>Thomas Jingoli<\/li><li>Sandra Phillips Johnson<\/li><li>Ken Ladd<\/li><li>Gregory T.H. Lee<\/li><li>Greg McKinley<\/li><li>Kristin McMillan<\/li><li>Dr. Marta Meana<\/li><li>Dr. Connie Mobley<\/li><li>Pat Mulroy<\/li><li>Perry Rogers<\/li><li>Dr. Vicki Rosser<\/li><li>Tony Sanchez<\/li><li>Tom Skancke<\/li><li>Judy Smith<\/li><li>Dr. Michael Wilde<\/li><li>Michael Yackira<\/li><li>Missy Young<\/li><li>Dr. Carolyn Yucha<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[44,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-44","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}