The search committee seeking a new dean for the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Arts and Sciences has unanimously nominated Todd Gleeson, former associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, to fill the post following a national search.
The recommendation was forwarded to Provost Phil DiStefano as a unanimously endorsed sole finalist.Ìý
Gleeson, a professor of environmental, population and organismic biology, has been serving as interim dean of the university's largest college since the departure last summer of former Dean Peter Spear. Spear is now provost at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
DiStefano said the recommendation of a single finalist was acceptable to him and that he would immediately initiate an interview process to involve others within and outside the college.Ìý
"Todd Gleeson has an excellent record at CU-Boulder," DiStefano said, "and I am pleased that the search committee unanimously supported his candidacy."
The College of Arts and Sciences has 35 departments plus 31 programs, 723 faculty and almost 15,000 students. Gleeson, an expert in skeletal muscle and animal physiology, has been a professor in the college for 21 years.