UNC announced on Monday that Chancellor Holden Thorp had named a 12-member search committee to recommend candidates to become the university’s next director of athletics.
The committee will advise Thorp regarding a successor to Dick Baddour, who last week announced plans to accelerate his retirement so that a new athletic director could hire Carolina’s next head football coach.
Committee members include representatives of the Educational Foundation Inc., trustees, university faculty and administrators, athletics department staff members and successful former student-athletes.
Committee members are:
• Martina Ballen, senior associate athletic director and chief financial officer of the department of athletics;
• Jan Boxill, chair of the faculty, senior lecturer in philosophy and director of the Parr Center for Ethics;
• Lissa Broome, the university’s faculty athletics representative to the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA, a member of the UNC Faculty Athletics Committee, Wachovia Professor of Banking Law and director of the Center for Banking and Finance in the School of Law;
• Alan Caldwell, a captain on the 1977 Tar Heel football team that won the ACC title and an all-ACC selection;
• Lowry Caudill, a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Educational Foundation Inc., a university trustee and an adjunct faculty member in the UNC chemistry department;
• Winston Crisp, vice chancellor for student affairs and a longtime university administrator;
• Don Curtis, a current member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Educational Foundation Inc., a university trustee and chair and chief executive officer of Curtis Media Group Inc.;
• Eric Montross, an All-American starter on the Tar Heels’ 1993 NCAA championship team and a retired NBA player;
• Karen Shelton, head coach of the women’s field hockey team since 1981, whose teams have won six NCAA championships;
• Dwight Stone, president of D. Stone Builders Inc. and vice chair of the Executive Board of Directors of the Educational Foundation Inc.;
• John L. Townsend III, a university trustee and managing partner and chief operating officer for Tiger Management LLC; and
• Richard “Stick†Williams, former chair of the university’s board of trustees and senior vice president of environmental health and safety at Duke Energy Corp.
Caudill will chair the search committee.
–Staff Reports