Presidential Search

Florida Gulf Coast University will achieve national prominence in offering exceptional value in high-quality educational programs that address regional and statewide needs. Our programs, firmly grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, will employ emerging instructional technologies. Possessing an entrepreneurial spirit, graduates will be well prepared for productive lives as civically engaged and environmentally conscious citizens with successful careers, ready to pursue further education.

Approved by the FGCU Board of Trustees September 8, 2015.

土库曼对伊朗比分预测佛罗里达海湾大学是一所综合性的高等教育机构，为佛罗里达西南部及其他地区提供具有战略重要性的本科和研究生学位课程。复旦大学在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科、卫生专业、商业以及海洋和环境科学等方面寻求卓越的学术成就。优秀的教师和工作人员在强大的顾问社区的支持下，为学生提供有收入的就业和成功的生活，成为负责任的、有生产力的和积极参与的公民。学校强调创新、以学生为中心的教学和学习，提倡和实践环境的可持续发展，拥抱多样性，培育社区伙伴关系，重视公共服务，鼓励公民责任，培养终身学习和发现新知识的习惯。

Approved by the FGCU Board of Trustees May 10, 2016.

The founding of Florida Gulf Coast University at the advent of a new century is a signal event. It comes at a moment in history when the conditions that formed and sustained American higher education are fundamentally changing, and at a time when rapid shifts wrought by technology and social complexities are altering the very nature of work, knowledge, and human relationships. As a public institution, Florida Gulf Coast University eagerly accepts the leadership opportunity and obligation to adapt to these changes and to meet the educational needs of Southwest Florida. To do so, it will collaborate with its various constituencies, listen to the calls for change, build on the intellectual heritage of the past, plan its evolution systematically for the twenty-first century, and be guided by the following principles:

• Student success is at the center of all University endeavors.The University is dedicated to the highest quality education that develops the whole person for success in life and work. Learner needs, rather than institutional preferences, determine priorities for academic planning, policies, and programs. Acceleration methods and assessment of prior and current learning are used to reduce time to degree. Quality teaching is demanded, recognized, and rewarded.
• Academic freedom is the foundation for the transmission and advancement of knowledge.The University vigorously protects freedom of inquiry and expression and categorically expects civility and mutual respect to be practiced in all deliberations.
• 多样性是更新和活力的源泉。The University is committed to developing capacities for living together in a democracy whose hallmark is individual, social, cultural, and intellectual diversity. It fosters a climate and models a condition of openness in which students, faculty, and staff engage multiplicity and difference with tolerance and equity.
• Informed and engaged citizens are essential to the creation of a civil and sustainable society.大学重视培养以诚实、勇气和同情心为基础的负责任的自我，并致力于推进民主理想。通过服务学习的要求，大学让学生参与社区活动，并有时间对他们的经历进行正式反思。大学理念的一部分是向学生灌输一种环境意识，即平衡他们的经济和社会期望与生态可持续发展的必要性。
• Service to Southwest Florida, including access to the University, is a public trust.The University is committed to forging partnerships and being responsive to its region. It strives to make available its knowledge resources, services, and educational offerings at times, places, in forms and by methods that will meet the needs of all its constituents. Access means not only admittance to buildings and programs, but also entrance into the spirit of intellectual and cultural community that the University creates and nourishes.
• Technology is a fundamental tool in achieving educational quality, efficiency, and distribution.大学以创新的、实验性的和实用的方式运用信息技术进行教学、行政和信息管理，并为学生提供访问和支持。它促进并提供远程免费学习。它要求并培养学生和员工的技术素养。
• Connected knowing and collaborative learning are basic to being well educated.大学在整个课程中构建跨学科的学习体验，赋予学生在整个系统中思考的能力，并理解跨学科知识的相互关系。重点放在通过合作机会发展团队合作技能。总的来说，大学在治理、运营和规划方面实践集体学习和协作的艺术。
• Assessment of all functions is necessary for improvement and continual renewal.The University is committed to accounting for its effectiveness through the use of comprehensive and systematic assessment. Tradition is challenged; the status-quo is questioned; change is implemented.

Approved by the Deans Council June 18, 1996

Back to top

Explore FGCU's 25th anniversary website

The history of Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is a visionary one built on support for providing higher education opportunities in Southwest Florida. Area citizens began the initiative to bring a state university to this part of Florida, and their early requests were quickly supported by elected officials at the local and state levels.

SW Florida gets a state university
The former Florida Board of Regents formally recommended in January 1991 the development of Florida’s 10th state university to be located in Southwest Florida, and, in May 1991, then Governor Lawton Chiles signed the legislation authorizing the new university. Southwest Florida’s support for a university was never more evident than during the next year, when private landowners offered more than 20 gift sites for the university campus. In early 1992, the Board of Regents selected the site offered by Ben Hill Griffin III and Alico, Inc. of 760 acres of land located just east of Interstate 75 between Alico and Corkscrew Roads.

University and president named
Roy McTarnaghan was named founding university president in April 1993. Initial staff was hired that summer, and the university’s academic and campus planning began in earnest. Plans for the first phase of campus construction were unveiled in February 1994, and shortly thereafter, the Florida Legislature named the institution as “Florida Gulf Coast University.” The vision for the university was one that would address emerging higher education needs for the 21st century, including the use of technology in the learning/teaching process and multi-year contracts as an alternative to faculty tenure. The Board of Regents approved an agreement in May 1995 with the United Faculty of Florida allowing FGCU to offer a contract system for faculty.

2 years from groundbreaking to opening
Campus groundbreaking was held on November 28, 1995, with more than 600 people participating in the celebratory event for Southwest Florida. With aggressive academic program and campus development schedules slated to culminate in an opening day of August 25, 1997, the early staff and faculty were busy meeting deadlines every month. Inaugural degree programs were approved by the Board of Regents in March 1996. The FGCU Foundation, a private fundraising arm of the university, gained extraordinary financial support for an institution that at the time could only be seen on a drawing board. Faculty members throughout the country were attracted to FGCU for the opportunity to offer higher education in new and innovative ways.

81 graduate in 1st commencement
The first FGCU student, Mariana Coto, was admitted in January 1997, and she participated in the historic ribbon cutting on the university’s August 25, 1997 opening day. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) awarded FGCU accreditation candidacy later that year, and a comprehensive self-study was launched. The first commencement was held in May 1998, with 81 FGCU graduates. In August 1998, the first phase of student housing opened.

Accreditation and the 2nd president
1998年9月，开国总统麦克塔纳汉宣布他打算在1999年5月1日退休。校董会于春夏两季在全国范围内发起了寻找福冈大学第二任校长的行动。1999年6月，福冈大学收到官方通知，以创纪录的时间获得了南方大学与学校协会(Southern Association of Colleges and Schools)的认证。1999年7月，董事会任命William C. Merwin为FGCU第二任总裁。1999年9月16日，默文校长第一天来到学校。他为学生、教师和工作人员发起了高度参与的战略规划过程，以推动这所年轻的机构进入下一个发展阶段。

University gets own Board of Trustees
佛罗里达立法机构于2001年为州立大学成立了董事会，并任命了13名成员进入佛罗里达海湾海岸大学董事会。土库曼对伊朗比分预测这个管理委员会继续提供战略性的、前瞻性的、以社区为基础的领导，并对地区和国家作出回应。2007年1月，FGCU校长Bill Merwin退休，Lutgert商学院院长Richard Pegnetter被FGCU董事会任命为临时校长。在全国范围内展开了一场争夺FGCU第三任行长的激烈竞争。

3rd president selected on 10th anniversary
On the university’s 10th anniversary of its opening day — August 25, 2007 — the FGCU Board of Trustees selected Wilson G. Bradshaw to serve as the institution’s third president. President Bradshaw led FGCU through its second decade of development and service as a comprehensive university offering access to quality higher education in Southwest Florida. Student enrollment grew 60% from 2007 to 2016, and new undergraduate and graduate degree programs continued to be added, along with academic buildings and student housing. FGCU Athletics achieved NCAA Division I status emerged as national powerhouse in 2013 when "Dunk City" became the first #15 seed to advance to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA DI Men's Basketball Championship.

Nearing 20th year, FGCU selects 4th president
2017年8月，FGCU将迎来成立20周年纪念日。在此之际，FGCU基金会发起了超过1亿美元的筹款活动，以推动奖学金、体育项目和有助于学生成功的项目的持续发展。毕业生人数增加到2.5万人以上，促使在全国各地成立了10个校友会分会。校长威尔逊·g·布拉德肖(Wilson G. Bradshaw)宣布，在领导了十年之后，他将在2016- 2017学年结束时退休，董事会于2017年2月选择迈克尔·马丁(Michael Martin)接替他。

Back to top

FGCU sent the following message to the university community on Monday, August 1, 2022.

Dear colleagues,

总统搜索咨询委员会的成员们周五举行了一次简短而富有成效的会议，我写信来分享我们讨论的内容。

COMPENSATION| The Segal Group, the executive compensation firm hired to perform a competitive market analysis for presidential pay, is adjusting the scope of its peer group. The changes reflect feedback from the search committee and the FGCU Board of Trustees.

The changes include:

·Removing private institutions from FGCU’s peer group

·Incorporating the University of North Florida, as well as other universities in Florida, to the peer group

·Seeking out schools with higher Carnegie Classifications that are more closely aligned to FGCU’s enrollment numbers.

TIMELINE| The search committee agreed to revise the tentative semi-finalists interviews, reducing the timeframe by one day by taking September 19 off the calendar. The semi-finalist interviews are now scheduled for September 20-22, with the committee still scheduled to use September 22 to review candidates and recommend three qualified applicants for final interviews. This process will be exempt from Sunshine and will be closed to the public, pursuant to Section 1004.098(2)(a), Florida Statutes. The final interviews will be handled by the Board of Trustees in October following public forums with students, employees and other campus stakeholders.

SEARCH DETAILS| AGB Search reported that nearly 50 applications have already been submitted for the president position, and our consultants believe dozens more could be submitted over the coming weeks.

NEXT MEETING|委员会将在9月1日举行的下次会议上，对申请者进行审查，并选出半决赛选手进行面试。根据《佛罗里达法规》第1004.098(2)(a)条，本次会议不受Sunshine约束，且不对公众开放。

A livestream of Friday's meeting can be found online atwww.busybully.com/presidentialsearch. The search website is updated with new information as the search progresses.

Sincerely,

Edward Morton
Chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee

FGCU sent the following message to the university community on Thursday, June 16, 2022.

Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce that we have officially launched the search for FGCU’s fifth president. Now through August 15, candidates can apply for the position by contacting ourexecutive search firm, AGB Search. Our intent is to present the president-elect at the November Board of Governors meeting, with the new leader taking office in time for the spring 2023 semester.

Several search-related items came up during Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting, including reviewing AGB Search’s marketing plan and approving the search timeline. Trustees recommended the inclusion of the Chicago Principles as something a president would value in the presidential profile, and agreed to a preliminary compensation range for total renumeration that was proposed by Segal Group, the executive compensation firm assisting with the presidential search.

To see the search timeline,click here.

To see the presidential profile,click here.

The next meeting of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee starts at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, July 29, in Sugden Hall (Sugden Resort & Hospitality Management), Room 114. A livestream will be available for those who cannot attend in person, and additional details about the meeting will be shared closer to the event.

Be sure to keep an eye on the presidential search website,www.busybully.com/presidentialsearch, which is regularly updated with new information as the search progresses.

Sincerely,

Edward Morton
Chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee

FGCU sent the following message to the university community on Tuesday, May 24, 2022.

Dear Colleagues,

The search for FGCU’s next leader is moving forward, and we anticipate launching the recruitment phase of the search in mid-June. Pushing this effort along is the Presidential Search Advisory Committee, which met Monday morning with consultants from AGB Search. The meeting was productive, and much of the work accomplished will go before the FGCU Board of Trustees on June 14.

Here are a few highlights from the committee meeting:

• COMPENSATION |The search committee reviewed the preliminary presidential compensation report prepared by the Segal Group, whose representatives were on the line to answer questions. The committee voted to recommend that the FGCU Board of Trustees approve the preliminary analysis and decide a pay range at its next meeting, with the potential inclusion of the University of West Florida as an extra member of FGCU’s peer group. The final document will be updated by Aug. 31 with a final peer group report, and it will include any relevant pay updates toThe Chronicle of Higher Education’s executive compensation database.
• CRITERIA |Members of the search committee critiqued the Leadership Profile, a booklet created by the university to advertise the presidential position, as well as language proposed by AGB Search for the position criteria, which will form the basis of the job description for the next president. The committee approved the two documents, subject to comments made during the meeting and those that will be supplied to AGB Search consultants and Pamela McCabe. The two documents will be combined, with the final document scheduled to go before the Board of Trustees on June 14.
• ADVERTISING |A marketing plan, detailing where the presidential job description will be advertised, was approved by the committee. This plan will be submitted to the Board of Trustees.
• TIMELINE |The search committee reviewed and approved a search timeline, which will go before the Board of Trustees. The current draft can be viewed under “timeline” in the committee’s agenda packet:LINK.

For more information or to view a recording of the meeting, visit the FGCU presidential search website atwww.busybully.com/presidentialsearch.

Sincerely,

Edward Morton
Chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee

---

FGCU sent the following message to the university community on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

Good afternoon,

Thank you to all of our students, faculty and staff who participated in listening sessions for the presidential search. Your feedback will guide AGB Search and the Presidential Search Advisory Committee with recruiting candidates for FGCU’s top leadership position.

For those who missed the forums, please fill outAGB’s online survey. It will remain open until June.

Be prepared to answer the following questions:

• What are the challenges and opportunities for FGCU’s next president?
• What qualifications and attributes should FGCU’s next president possess?
• What does success look like in the next 3 to 5 years?

You can also share your feedback and make nominations via email atFGCUPresident@agbsearch.com. Visitwww.busybully.com/presidentialsearchfor more information.

Sincerely,

Pam

Pamela McCabe|Coordinator of University Communications & Media Relations

Office of the President

FGCU sent the following message to the university community on Thursday, April 21, 2022.

Florida Gulf Coast University students, employees and community stakeholders are invited to take part in listening sessions to gather feedback on the professional and personal qualities desired of FGCU’s next president.

每期会议将由高管猎头公司AGB Search的顾问主持，AGB Search已受聘协助总统猎头咨询委员会招聘FGCU第五任总裁。这些活动是混合的，因此参与者可以在FGCU校园(FGCU大道10501号)进行虚拟或亲自参加。年代,迈尔斯堡。

Here are the details:

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022
Location: Sugden Hall, Room 114

• FGCU employees
  Time: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
  Microsoft Teams:https://tinyurl.com/h9w9tyfs
• FGCU students
  Time下午2时15分至3时15分
  Microsoft Teams:https://tinyurl.com/5n83ekvh
• Community forum
  Time: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Microsoft Teams:https://tinyurl.com/3x22cz7p

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022
Location: Edwards Hall, Room 112

• FGCU employees
  Time: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
  Microsoft Teams:https://tinyurl.com/yv9h29nj
• FGCU students
  Time: 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
  Microsoft Teams:https://tinyurl.com/yc7kc8fw
• Community forum
  Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
  Microsoft Teams:https://tinyurl.com/hatf9bx2

Please be aware that members of the FGCU Board of Trustees and Presidential Search Advisory Committee are invited to attend these sessions.

Reservations are not required. Community members should stop at the parking information booth at the main entrance to campus on FGCU Boulevard to obtain a temporary parking pass. Follow event signs to find nearby parking. A map of campus is available atwww.busybully.com/campusmap.

If you are unable to attend these listening sessions, please be aware that AGB Search is collecting input through an online survey. This survey, accessible atwww.surveymonkey.com/r/FGCU-Pres-Input, will close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3.

For more information, visitwww.busybully.com/presidentialsearch.

---

FGCU sent the following message to the university community on Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

Dear Colleagues,

Today, Board of Trustees Chair Blake Gable issued his charge to the 13-member Presidential Search Advisory Committee, formally kicking off the search for our fifth president.

In summary, we are to:

• Define the professional and personal qualities for the next president of FGCU with input and guidance from the greater FGCU community;
• Develop and execute an inclusive, robust and transparent search to bring in the most diverse pool of highly qualified candidates for this position;
• Operate a respectful and honest screening process that ensures we are meeting the high standards of FGCU stakeholders, the citizens of Florida and state requirements to fill the president’s seat;
• And, finally, submit more than two qualified applicants to the Board of Trustees for final interviews. The Board of Trustees will then select a new president for FGCU, subject to final confirmation by the Board of Governors.

为了完成这项任务，委员会将与AGB搜索顾问Melissa Trotta, Sally Mason和Garry Owens合作。顾问们审查了搜索工作的范围和估计的时间表，并建议在7月召开第二次委员会会议，之后为所有大学利益相关者提供倾听会议和反馈机会。目标是在11月向理事会提交一位当选总统。

During the meeting, FGCU staff offered an overview of Florida’s Sunshine Law, public records and search guidelines. Speakers included Vee Leonard, vice president and general counsel; Sara Stensrud, senior associate vice president of Administrative Services & Finance; and Precious Gunter, chief equity, ethics and compliance officer and Title IX coordinator.

A recording of the full meeting is available onFGCU’s presidential search website. Regular updates about the search process will be posted to this website, and I encourage all members of the campus community to take an active role in the work ahead.

Sincerely,

Edward Morton
Chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee

---

FGCU sent the following message to the university community on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.

Good afternoon,

The Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to hire AGB Search to assist the newly assembled Presidential Search Advisory Committee with recruiting our fifth president.

Consultants with AGB will be introduced to the committee during a kickoff meeting that is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, in the Cohen Student Union Ballroom. A live-stream video will be available through FGCU’s presidential website,www.busybully.com/presidentialsearch会上发布了会议议程和公众评论说明。

AGB was one of five executive search firms to submit proposals to the university. The others were Diversified Search Group, Myers McRae, R. William Funk & Associates and Witt/Kieffer Inc. The Executive Search Firm Advisory Committee invited three of the firms – AGB, Diversified and Myers McRae – for presentations and interviews at its March 24, 2022, meeting, and the committee unanimously agreed to recommend AGB to the FGCU Board of Trustees for approval.

The committee’s members were Sara Stensrud, senior associate vice president of Administrative Services & Finance; Alice Wheelwright, associate vice president of Marketing & Communications; Gerard Carrington, associate vice president of University Advancement; Greg Tolley, executive director of The Water School; and Blake Gable, chair of the Board of Trustees.

In similar news, Chair Gable announced during today’s Board of Trustees meeting that FGCU has selected The Segal Company as the executive compensation firm for the presidential search.

FGCU董事会鼓励校园社区成员和所有大学利益相关者在总统竞选中发挥积极作用。请关注总统搜索网站，了解更多有关搜索和委员会工作的信息。

Sincerely,

Pam

Pamela McCabe|Coordinator of University Communications & Media Relations

Office of the President

---

2022年4月11日(周一)，福冈大学向大学社区发出了以下信息。

Dear FGCU community,

董事会最关键的职责之一是选择佛罗里达海湾海岸大学的校长。土库曼对伊朗比分预测虽然我很想看到迈克·马丁总统再给我们一年或两年的惊喜，但他在今年年底退休的意图很明显。在我们继续寻找我们的第五位总统的艰巨任务之际，我很高兴地宣布成立了总统人选咨询委员会(PSAC)。

As required by the Florida Board of Governors, PSAC consists of a broadly representative group of stakeholders for the university. This includes students and alumni, faculty and staff, community partners and local leaders who depend on FGCU’s mission, vibrancy and dedication to offering high-quality educational opportunities. All have agreed to dedicate a significant amount of time and effort to recruit the best candidates for our top leadership position, and they will be led through the process by Trustee Edward Morton, who has agreed to chair the committee.

Presidential Search Advisory Committee

• Edward Morton(chair) | Vice chair of FGCU Board of Trustees
• Grace Brannigan| FGCU Board of Trustees; FGCU Student Government president
• Joseph Catti| Founder, director, chairman and CEO of FineMark Holdings, Inc., and FineMark National Bank & Trust
• Ashley Coone| Founder and president of Ashley Coone Consulting; DeSoto County Board of Commissioners
• Richard P. Eide, Jr. | FGCU Board of Trustees
• Darlene Jordan| Florida Board of Governors
• Gail Markham| Partner, Markham Norton Mosteller Wright & Company, P.A.
• Tina Matte| Of counsel, Gravina, Smith, Matte & Arnold
• Luis Rivera| FGCU Board of Trustees
• Rebecca Totaro| FGCU associate dean of Curriculum & Assessment; English professor
• Arie van Duijn|FGCU professor of physical therapy
• Kristen Vanselow| FGCU assistant vice president for Innovation Education and Partnerships
• Charles Winton| President of Estero Bay Chevrolet

PSAC的第一次会议定于4月13日星期三上午8:30在科恩学生会宴会厅举行。A livestream video will be available through FGCU’s presidential website,www.busybully.com/presidentialsearch, where you can also find the meeting’s agenda and public comment instructions.

During the coming months, the committee will develop a search timeline, create a position profile, assist with marketing the position, vet applicants, interview the most qualified candidates and provide the Board of Trustees with more than two qualified applicants for consideration.

FGCU’s Board of Trustees will then conduct final interviews and select a new president for FGCU, subject to final confirmation by the Board of Governors.

It is vital for all FGCU stakeholders to get involved in the search process so we can find the right person to lead this university into its next 25 years. The work begins now, Eagles.

Sincerely,

Blake Gable
Chair of FGCU’s Board of Trustees