Dr. Stokes announced as new MU interim chancellor
The MU Board of Curators met in Columbia on Tuesday for a closed meeting about appointing the next MU interim chancellor.
Dr. Garnett Stokes has been appointed to take over the position.
According to a press release, “Dr. Stokes has served as Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost at MU since February 2015. During her tenure at MU, she has been instrumental in shaping the university’s campus leadership, hiring eight of the 13 deans currently serving as well as important Provost staff positions including Associate Provost and Vice Provost for Enrollment Management.”
Interim Chancellor Hank Foley will officially leave his position at MU on Wednesday, and will start his new job as President of the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) on June 1.
“The Mizzou chancellor search is going very well. Our hope is to bring in the finalists for interviews with our stakeholders in the coming weeks. It’s gone very well. We have outstanding candidates that I believe will spend the next 10, 15 years pushing the important mission of the university, so I’m very excited,” MU System President Mun Choi told ABC 17 News last week. “Many of them are individuals who are sitting provosts in some cases, or sitting vice presidents… We want to make sure that we keep the confidentiality. That way we ensure that we have the highest quality candidates.”
A public forum was held in January about the selection of the new chancellor.
“I think that they have to have a chancellor that has the ability to get along, that is a leader, that has experience working with an extremely diverse constituency…so they have to be able to interact with a broad diverse group of people on a broad diverse group of subjects, and I think, hopefully, that came through to the committee,” Kee Groshong, former Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services told ABC 17 News after the forum.
UM spokesman John Fougere told ABC 17 News they hope to announce the selection for MU chancellor by early spring or late summer.
