Presidential candidate Jay Noren visits campus March 3 and 4

Dear Members of the UND Community,

The next Presidential candidate, Dr. Jay Noren, will visit our campus March 3 and 4. On behalf of the UND Presidential Search Committee, we are requesting your active participation in the interview process.   There will be several opportunities to meet and interact with him, including the following:

• Thursday, March 3, 2:30 to 3:45 p.m., Meeting with faculty, Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union. The first 30 minutes will be devoted to standardized questions from University Senate; the remaining 45 minutes will be devoted to questions from faculty in attendance. All faculty are welcome. Please note time change to accommodate University Senate meeting at 4:05 p.m. in 113 Education.
• Friday, March 4, 9:30 to 10:15 a.m., Meeting with staff, Wilkerson Commons, Room 202
• Friday, March 4, noon to 1:15 p.m., Meet & Greet with students,  adjacent to Sign & Design in the Memorial Union.
• Friday, March 4, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., Open Forum, Lecture Bowl, Memorial Union. The open forum will be streamed at https://conted.breeze.und.nodak.edu/r3grwn7kor5/
• Friday, March 4, 3:30 to 4 p.m., Post-Forum Social/Meet & Greet, Fireside Lounge

We invite faculty, staff, and students to be actively engaged during this visit, and we seek your feedback. A link to a web-based feedback form will be e-mailed to all internal constituents (faculty, staff, students, etc.) Thank you very much for your willingness to help in this important process.

As always, don’t hesitate to contact one of us should you have questions or suggestions.

Dr. Jay Noren
Dr. Jay Noren has served in several academic leadership roles including President of Wayne State University, Chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, President of the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Nebraska, Provost at Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Founding Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Associate Dean at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine.

He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 where he served until 1999 as a tenured faculty member and in several leadership roles.  In addition to his faculty appointments at Wisconsin, he has held faculty appointments as Professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, the University of Nebraska, the School of Government and the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University and Health Science Center, Biomedical Engineering at Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, College of Medicine and School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago, Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota, University of Washington, and University of North Carolina School of Public Health, and Research Scholar at the National Institute of Health Policy.

Dr. Noren’s research and teaching emphases are health services research, health policy and health politics, preventive medicine, higher education and health services leadership and management, health workforce, and Native American health care.  He has authored numerous papers and book chapters.  He developed and directed the Wisconsin Center for Health Policy and Program Evaluation and was an originator and director of the University of Wisconsin graduate program in Administrative Medicine and the Clinician Executive Master of Healthcare Administration Program at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Dr. Noren received BA and BS degrees from the University of Minnesota, MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, and an MPH degree from Harvard University.  He was a research fellow at the Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and U.S Congress, and a Winston Churchill Fellow in England and Scotland.  He did his post-graduate work in health policy, health services research, public health, preventive medicine, and internal medicine at Harvard, the University of Vermont, and Michigan State University.

His CV is available at http://und.edu/president-search/_files/docs/noren-jay.pdf  .

— Hesham El-Rewini & Grant Shaft, Search Committee Co-Chairs