UMass Names Presidential Search Committee

University of Massachusetts trustees have named a 21-member search committee to find a new president for the five-campus system.
The committee established Friday at the trustees' meeting at UMass Law School in Dartmouth includes trustees, faculty, administrators, students and alumni.

The university is seeking a replacement for President Robert Caret who is stepping down June 30 to become chancellor of the University System of Maryland.

The committee will be chaired by Robert Manning, chairman of MFS Investment Management, the former chairman of the trustees, and a 1984 graduate of UMass-Lowell.

Trustees Chairman Victor Woolridge called the committee ``distinguished and diverse.''

Woolridge promised a national search that is ``open and thorough.''

The search committee will make recommendations to the trustees, who hope to make a final selection by July 1.