University of Missouri System curators agree on presidential search committee

The search for a new University of Missouri system president continues in Kansas City as curators agreed upon the composition of the search committee Wednesday morning.

The search committee is comprised of all six curators, two students – one of whom is the student board representative – two faculty members, and one staff member.

The student representative isRakeem Golden from the Kansas City campus; the two faculty members are Stephanie Shonekan from the MU Columbia campus and Sheilah F. Clarke-Ekong from the St. Louis campus; and the staff representative is C. Joe Boehm from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

UM System Chief Communications Officer John Fougere says, “We want to make sure that they find a candidate that matches UM. You know the size of that job. Obviously it’s extremely important, so I think that the pool of candidates that they get and the quality of candidates is the most important factor right now”

Their meeting began at 8:30 a.m.

A public forum will be held on the MU campus in the first week of April to collect student input.