Jill Beck Named as Lawrence's 15th President

At its winter meeting on January 23, the Lawrence University Board of Trustees appointed Jill Beck, former dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, and current director of the da Vinci Research Center for Learning Through the Arts at UCI, as the college's 15th president. She will succeed Richard Warch, who is retiring June 30 following a 25-year tenure, the second-longest presidency in Lawrence history.

• Board Chair Jeffrey Riester's Statement
• Read the Press Release Announcing the Appointment
• Jill Beck's Remarks to the Campus Community
• Biography of Jill Beck
• Report of the Search Committee to the Board of Trustees

The Search Process

• Members of the Search Committee
• The Search Consulting Firm
• Board Chair Jeffrey Riester's Reflections on the Search
  (Excerpted from Lawrence Today Spring 2003)
• The Board of Trustees' Charge to the Search Committee
• The Search Timeline

Updates on the Progess of the Search

• An Update on the Progress of the Presidential Search by the
  Search Committee Chair (November 14, 2003)
• Memo to the Lawrence Community by the Search Committee
  Chair (May 30, 2003)
• "Search Committee Begins Its Work"
  (Lawrence Today, Summer 2003)

Search Committee Documents

• The Advertisement in the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Position Prospectus

Announcement of President Warch's Retirement

• Board Chair Jeffrey Riester's Letter to the Lawrence Community
• The Press Release

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