President Kelley names search committee for vice president for Student and Outreach Services
President Robert Kelley has appointed a search committee to help find UND’s next Vice President for Student and Outreach Services. Kelley tapped Alice Brekke, vice president for finance and operations to lead the search. The committee will help find the successor to Dr. Robert Boyd, who is retiring Dec. 31 after leading the division since 1998.
The search committee includes:
* Alice Brekke, chair, Vice President for Finance and Operations
* Julie Anderson, Dean, College of Nursing
* Matt Bakke, Student Body President
* Pete Haga, Community/Government Relations Officer, City of Grand Forks
* Cara Halgren, Associate Dean of Students
* Steven Light, Assistant Professor, Political Science & Public Administration
* Sharon Loiland, Controller, Associate Vice President-Finance & Operations
* Linda Neuerburg, Assistant Director, American Indian Student Services
* Seinquis (Sin-kees) Slater, student
* Tony Trimarco, Director, Memorial Union
* David Yearwood, Associate Professor & Chair, Technology
Robert Boyd has been with UND for more than 30 years, starting out as the Director of Extension and Professional Services, next as the Dean of Outreach Programs and since 1998 as the Vice President for Student and Outreach Services. Areas reporting to Boyd include Health and Wellness, Enrollment Management, Student Services and Outreach Services.
During his time at UND, Boyd has often been the “go-to” leader for UND presidents. In the late 1990s, then president Ken Baker tapped Boyd to run the “virtual” University set up by UND in the immediate aftermath of the Flood of ’97. He then asked Boyd to chair the Exigency Task Force on Enrollment to help return UND to its preflood headcount. A year later, he turned to Boyd to lead the newly reconstituted Division of Student and Outreach Services. Four UND presidents asked Boyd to lead the recruitment of high-level positions to campus and appointed him co-chair of the task group that guided UND in its move to Division I Athletics. President Emeritus Charles Kupchella appointed Boyd to chair UND’s Quasquicentennial, the celebration of 125 years. Meanwhile, Boyd has led his own vice presidential division to a level of excellence that has often been noted through national awards.
