The search advisory committee for the position of chancellor of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB) has announced that an additional finalist for chancellor will be visiting campus April 3 and 4.
Sueann Ambron, dean of the Business School of the University of Colorado at Denver, will meet with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB faculty, staff and students; community college presidents; key Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ leaders and members of the community.
The chancellor serves as Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB’s chief executive officer and is a member of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s multi-campus leadership team.
Ambron holds a master’s degree from Michigan State University and a doctorate in education from the teacher’s college at Columbia University. She has been a dean at Colorado since 2000. From 1998 to 2000 she was president and CEO of Avulet, Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif.
The community is invited to a public presentation by Ambron from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 in room Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB2-005 on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB campus.
Two other finalists have already been invited to visit Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB. Nabil Ibrahim, vice chancellor for academic affairs and chief academic officer at Purdue University, Calumet visited March 27 and 28. Kenyon S. Chan, dean of the college and vice president for academic affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles, will visit March 30 and April 2.
Since its establishment in 1990 as an upper-division and master’s level campus, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB has graduated 6,000 students in five programs: business, computing and software systems, education, interdisciplinary arts and sciences and nursing. Distinguished for its award-winning architecture and proximity to a wetlands restoration project, it is co-located with Cascadia Community College. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB has 100 faculty and 200 staff members. In autumn 2006 it became a four-year institution, welcoming its first freshman class.
Steven G. Olswang has served as interim chancellor since June 2005 when Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµB Chancellor Warren Buck resigned.