3-12-08
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Upper-level college leaders and even a U.S.
ambassador are among the latest to apply for the Southern University
chancellor position.

Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter says the
chancellor search committee could meet to begin reviewing the 27 applications
received as soon as next week.

Slaughter says interviews likely will be in April to pick the next
leader of Southern's Baton Rouge campus. The next chancellor would be hired
by the end of May.

Interim Chancellor Margaret Ambrose headlines the field of a handful of
internal candidates. But the newest group of 7 applicants is made up
of outsiders.

Out of the most recent applicants, those upper-level administrators
include Burnett Joiner, Benedict College senior vice president for
academic affairs in South Carolina; Kofi Lomotey, Fisk University executive
vice president and provost in Tennessee; Napoleon Moses, Alcorn State
University vice president for academic affairs in Mississippi; and Alvin
Thornton, Howard University associate provost in Washington, D.C.

Also applying is former Dillard University interim President Bettye
Parker Smith.

Another new applicant is U.S. Ambassador Larry Porter, who is president
of the Inter-American Foundation, a federal agency that provides aid
to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Crunch time!

SU panel interviews last chancellor hopefuls

• By JORDAN BLUM
• Advocate Capitol News Bureau
• : Apr 11, 2008 -.
•
Southern University wrapped up its four-day interview marathon of 16 chancellor candidates Thursday with two top internal applicants.
Southern University Graduate Studies Dean Jim Llorens and Southern at Shreveport Chancellor Ray Belton were among the final five candidates to interview Thursday with the chancellor search committee and Southern System President Ralph Slaughter.
Committee members can review DVDs of all the recorded interviews. They must score the interviews by Tuesday.
Each question’s response is graded on a roughly 10-point scale by each committee member, then the totals will be tabulated, Slaughter said.
The search committee will then have a closed meeting on April 21 to begin narrowing the list of candidates down to a handful of finalists, said committee co-Chairman Matthew Butler of The Shaw Group.
“I’m confident we’ll be able to whittle the list,” Butler said, while also praising the quality of the candidates.


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Just my take.

FAMU,MOREHOUSE & SU will keep it in the house.
In other words, they hire their alums.
Belton.???

Belton will land hard and heavy.