LINCOLN - The last search by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents to hire a system leader involved nine months of headhunting, private meetings and public interviews before Hank Bounds was nominated as president.

In the effort to find Bounds' successor — NU's seventh president announced in March he would step down, and the search began in April — regents appear ready to complete the task in about six months. Tuesday, the eight-person board charged with governing the university added an agenda item to its Friday meeting, allowing for regents to potentially nominate a priority candidate.

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