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LINCOLN — A top-ranking academic official at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be selected through a nationwide search after all.
Chancellor Harvey Perlman said opposition from faculty leaders led him to drop his plan to tap Susan Poser as a fast-track appointee to senior vice chancellor of academic affairs.
Last week, Perlman suggested forgoing a national search, which could take 18 months. He reasoned that the job should be filled quickly because of an unusually high number of vacancies in top UNL positions.
Barbara Couture’s departure from the senior vice chancellor’s post creates the fifth such vacancy. Replacements also are needed for three academic deans and the vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Poser, who has been Perlman’s chief of staff since 2007, also is a law professor who has been on the faculty since 1999.
She appeared before faculty and students at a forum earlier this week to answer questions and describe her vision for the campus.
During a meeting this week with the Faculty Senate’s executive committee, Perlman said, he was told that faculty could not support the fast-track appointment, despite widespread support for Poser as a candidate.
Perlman said he would make a decision soon about finding an interim replacement for Couture, who takes over Jan. 1 as president of New Mexico State University.
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