FSU Provost Search and new College of Bus. building

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2015/10/27/fsu-closes-search-provost/74694690/

A list of finalists for Florida State University provost should be released within a week, Search Committee Chairman Don Gibson said Tuesday.
Once the finalists are reviewed by FSU President John Thrasher, three or four will be invited to campus for interviews. Gibson, dean emeritus of the College of Music, said campus interviews should be completed before Thanksgiving, with Thrasher’s choice named in December.
The 23-member committee met with seven semifinalists last Thursday and Friday in Atlanta. Gibson would not say if interim provost, Sally McRorie, who applied for the post, is among the finalists presented to Thrasher.
“The committee felt very good about the finalists,” Gibson said. “We had strong consensus about the people we were going to be interviewing.”
Gibson, who in 2010 also chaired the search committee that led to the hiring of Garnett Stokes, said, “The candidate pool for that search was not as strong as the one for this search.
“We’ve got a number of people who have leadership experience in top institutions,” he said. “That’s what you want if you can get it.”
McRorie has served as interim provost since January, following Stokes’ resignation in December to become provost at the University of Missouri.


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PLANNING - The College of Business New Building Committee completed its Legacy Hall Visioning Study, which provides the building’s basic parameters – its uses, size, imaging of the space and an initial project budget. The college begins a search for the building’s architectural team later this fall.

“The 215,000-square-foot building is projected to meet student and faculty growth over the foreseeable future,” said Dean Gatzlaff, chair of the committee, Mark C. Bane Professor and director of The Center for Real Estate Education & Research.

Funding for the $80-million building will be provided equally from private donations and Florida State. Click here to read the Legacy Hall Visioning Study (PDF). Click here to learn more about the vision of Legacy Hall.