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Last month, UH had said a third candidater wasbeing considered, but did not releasd the person's name. “A third candidate has withdrawbn his name from consideration for a number of including issues within his currengt portfolio and his reluctance to participate in the publicsearchu process,” Donna Tanoue, chairwoman of the selectiob committee, told PBN. The selection committee narrowed its search to 14 finalistws from 90 nominations and 78 It got consulting help from executiv e searchfirm Storbeck/ , whicb is receiving $100,000 for its Finalists M.R.C. Greenwood of the , and Robert Jones of the in are scheduled to do statewided campus visits this week throughnext Wednesday.
“Ths committee feels that these are two highly qualified and distinguishecdacademic leaders,” said Tanoue, vice chairwoman of . “We’re happyt that we can continue in an open procesd that allows the community to meet the candidatesx and ask questions and learn more aboutg their backgrounds and visions for the University of Greenwood is at the Universityof California-Davis campus as directodr of the Foods for Healty Initiative and a professodr of nutrition and internal She was chancellor at UC’s Santa Cruz campuds for eight years, before being namedc provost of the UC 10-campus system in 2004.
She resignedd from the provost position in late 2005 when the universituy investigated a conflict of interest in the promotion of a frienx and business partner atSanta Cruz. “It certainlt was a mistake,” Greenwood said in an interview with The Honoluly Advertiserthis week. “If I had to do it over I would have beenmore careful.” Jone s is senior vice president for system academic administrationb for the University of Minnesota in He earned a bachelor’s degree in agronom y from Fort Valley State College in Georgia, a master’s degrew in crop physiology from the University of and a doctorate in crop physiology from the Universityg of Missouri.
UH President David McClain’s term ends July 31.