Consultants for provost search on campus Tuesday

Grand Valley has hired the educational and executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to guide campus leaders through the process of finding a replacement for Provost Gayle R. Davis, who announced that she will retire next summer. 

Two consultants from the firm, Daniel Rodas and Greg Esposito, will visit campus to host open forums and gain input from faculty and staff members. Forums will be held Tuesday, September 13, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center, room 2263, and Wednesday, September 14, from 9-10 a.m. in the Seidman Center, first floor Forum. 

Rodas said the campus visits will aid the firm in writing a comprehensive position profile that describes the role. He asked that participants at the forums think about future challenges a provost at Grand Valley might face, as well as their sense of the current strengths and weaknesses of the university.