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from the issue of May 6, 2004
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4 to interview for presidential job
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
Four finalists have been named in the search for the next president of the University of Nebraska. The search committee released the names April 30.
The NU Board of Regents will bring each candidate to all four NU campuses for interviews beginning the week of May 10, said Don Blank, chairman of the Board of Regents. He said the board hopes to name the new president by June 1.
Each finalist will be invited to Nebraska for a two-day visit that will include formal interviews with the regents, tours of the four university campuses, meetings with the campuses’ chancellors, receptions for faculty, staff and students, and news conferences. Each finalist also will meet with community leaders in Omaha, Lincoln and Kearney.
The candidates are Adm. James O. Ellis Jr., Peter Sloat Hoff, James B. Milliken and Kim M. Robak.
More about the candidates:
• Adm. James O. Ellis Jr. is commander of U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue. He has held this position since 2001 and reports to the Secretary of Defense. Among his accomplishments, he created, obtained approval for and implemented a corporate realignment and consolidation of operations at Offutt. From 1998-2001, he was commander of European and African operations for the U.S. Navy and was commander-in-chief of Allied Forces in southern Europe during the Balkan humanitarian crisis. From 1996-98, he was chief operating office for the U.S. Navy and represented the chief of naval operations in dealings with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has also led national security organizations headquartered in Japan and Bahrain.
Ellis received a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master of science degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West Florida, and a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Peter Sloat Hoff is president of the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. During Hoff’s presidency, which began in 1997, enrollment at the university has increased by more than 25 percent and extramural research funding has nearly tripled, reaching $50 million to $60 million annually. From 1993-97, Hoff was senior vice chancellor of academic affairs for the California State University system. From 1990-93, he was vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University System of Georgia, and held the same position at Indiana University Southeast from 1987-1990.
Hoff spent the majority of his academic career, from 1970-87, at the University of Wisconsin, serving as chair of the English department for one year and chair of the humanities department for four years, both at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He was director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there from 1978-1980, then became executive director for the Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council for the Wisconsin system Office of Academic Affairs from 1980-83. He led two faculty and teaching development programs for the system in 1983-1987 and was associate dean of faculty for University of Wisconsin-Parkside from 1986-87.
Hoff received a bachelor of arts degree with honors in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master of arts degree in English and doctorate in English and humanities from Stanford University.
• James B. Milliken is senior vice president for University Affairs at the University of North Carolina. Milliken’s office develops and implements universitywide strategy, outreach, economic development, public affairs and advancement. Before beginning this post in March 2003, Milliken was vice president for public affairs and university advancement at UNC, beginning in August 1998.
Milliken was corporation secretary and vice president for external affairs at the University of Nebraska from 1990-98. From 1988 to December 1992, he also was executive assistant to the president at NU.
Milliken received a bachelor of arts degree with distinction from UNL and his juris doctor from New York University. He was an attorney for Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft in New York City from 1983 to 1988.
• Kim M. Robak is vice president for external affairs and corporation secretary at the University of Nebraska. Robak succeeded Milliken in this position at NU in 1999. Before joining the university, Robak was lieutenant governor of Nebraska from 1993-99. She also served as legal counselor and chief of staff to Gov. Ben Nelson from 1991-93. She was an associate and partner for the Rembolt Ludtke Parker and Berger law firm in Lincoln from 1985-91 and was a teacher at Irving Junior High School in Lincoln before beginning her law career, from 1979-82.
Robak received a bachelor of arts degree from UNL and a juris doctor from the University of Nebraska. She serves on the board of directors and corporate boards for many companies and organizations, including First Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., Wells Fargo Bank Nebraska, the United Way and the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development, among others.
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