LINCOLN- On Thursday, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved a search advisory committee and scheduled several listening sessions next week to garner public feedback in its search for the next NU System president. Board Chair Tim Clare said the sessions will be open to the public, and will serve as the official "job advertisements" in state and national markets.

The advisory committee will be made up of 22 members, with Clare leading the search, and will also be subject to the Nebraska Open Meetings Act. While not set timeline for the search was approved, Clare laid out the next few steps in the process, which will include compiling stakeholder input, further developing the NU president's profile, and sending out the first round of advertisements for the position.

"Our goal will be to cast as wide a net as possible and consider a range of potential candidates," said Clare. Academic Search, a firm NU is consulting with through the process, estimated it to take at least 17 weeks from signing a contract with the university to when the search for a priority candidate is concluded. Regents approved the contract on October 5th, placing the ending of this tentative timeline somewhere near the end of January, the month current President Ted Carter is set to leave.

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