SU Board of Trustees announces chancellor search committee members

Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees announced the members of the search committee tasked with selecting SU’s next chancellor. The committee includes 24 trustees, staff members, students and faculty members. Joe Zhao | Senior Staff Photographer
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Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees announced the members of the search committee tasked with selecting SU’s next chancellor, according to a Friday campus-wide email.
The committee, led by co-chairs Shelly Fisher and Lisa Fontenelli, is made up of 24 trustees, staff members, students and faculty members.
The board also launched the Chancellor Search website, where the full schedule of community engagement sessions as well as other information about the process.
The committee members include:
Trustees:
- Richard M. Alexander L’82, vice chair, Board of Trustees
- Joanne F. Alper ’72, life trustee
- Steve Ballentine ’83, voting trustee
- Sharon R. Barner ’79, voting trustee
- Steven W. Barnes ’82, H’19, vice chair, Board of Trustees
- Daniel A. D’Aniello ’68, H’20, life trustee
- Lawrence S. Kramer ’72, vice chair, Board of Trustees
- Ronald P. O’Hanley ’80, voting trustee
- Mike Tirico ’88, vice chair, Board of Trustees
- Jeff Scruggs, chairman, Board of Trustees
Students:
- Alexia Chatzitheodorou, Ph.D. candidate, College of Arts and Sciences
- German Nolivos ’26, president, Student Government Association
- Ryleigh Mellen L’26, J.D. candidate, College of Law
Faculty:
- Tula Goenka G’86, professor, Newhouse School of Public Communications
- Chris E. Johnson, professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science
- Mark J. Lodato, dean, Newhouse School of Public Communications
- Brice Nordquist, associate professor, College of Arts and Sciences
- Brett Padgett, senior vice president and chief financial officer
- Beth Patin, associate professor, School of Information Studies
- Andrea Persin G’25, assistant dean of budget, finance and administration, College of Arts and Sciences
- Kira Reed, associate professor, Whitman School of Management
- Shane Sanders, professor, David B. Falk College of Sport
- Emily Stokes-Rees, professor, College of Visual and Performing Arts
- Pun To (Douglas) Yung, teaching professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science