The search is currently underway. Below are a few key dates.

Search Open: March 1, 2024
Applications Due: April 30, 2024

Search will remain open until the position has been filled.

February:

  • Constituency Listening Sessions.
  • First Search Committee Meeting.
  • Chancellor King charges the Search Committee.

March:

  • Presidential Search website launches.
  • Advertisements are posted in several national publications.
  • AGB Search begins recruitment efforts.
  • Second Search Committee Meeting.

April:

  • AGB Search continues recruitment efforts.
  • Search Committee begins first review of candidate materials.
  • Priority consideration for applications ends on April 30.

May:

  • Third Search Committee Meeting.
  • The search committee conducts preliminary screenings of prospective candidates.
  • The Search Committee determines the top 8-12 candidates for first-round virtual interviews.
  • The Search Committee selects five candidates for on-site campus visits and interviews.
  • Fourth Search Committee Meeting.

June:

  • Finalists visit for in-person on-campus interviews. Campus interviews to take place, with a variety of campus constituents following the representational model.
  • Final Search Committee meeting to review feedback from campus interviews and makes recommendations to the College Council of all acceptable candidates.
  • The College Council meets to review and approve recommendations of three finalists to the Chancellor.

July and August:

  • Chancellor and System Senior Staff meet with the top three candidates.
  • Chancellor recommends a final candidate for the subcommittee of the SUNY Board of Trustees to interview.
  • SUNY Board of Trustees appoints the recommended candidate.
  • Announcement of the new president is made in conjunction with the SUNY Chancellor and College of Optometry.