Florida's Board of Governors has come one step closer to filling the shoes of outgoing Chancellor Mark Rosenberg.
Sheila McDevitt, the board's chairwoman, announced in a Wednesday news release the 14 members of the search committee that will find Rosenberg's replacement.
The committee includes two members with ties to UF: Dianna Morgan, chairwoman of UF's Board of Trustees, and Marshall M. Criser III, president of AT&T Florida and son of former UF President Marshall Criser.
Rosenberg announced his resignation last month and intends to stay on as chancellor until February.
He plans to return to Florida International University as a member of the faculty.
However, just because Rosenberg will leave in February doesn't mean the committee has to finish its work by then, said Bill Edmonds, the board's spokesman, in a phone interview.
That will depend on what the committee finds when it starts looking, he said.
He said Rosenberg has done a remarkable job and has spent much of his time as chancellor building a relationship between the board and the Florida Legislature.
Edmonds said the shrinking budgets of the state and its universities will present the new chancellor with challenges, but he said he doesn't think it will make the search process any harder.
"Florida is a very exciting state, it's a very large university system," Edmonds said. "It should be very attractive to a lot of people who are on the move."
The search committee's first meeting will be Oct. 27, but Edmonds said members wouldn't be name-dropping anytime soon.
"It really will just be a nuts-and-bolts discussion about, you know, how we're going to do this," Edmonds said. "You won't get names for quite a while."
