COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY RECORD  September 3, 1993  Vol. 19 No. 1

                       SEARCH COMMITTEES APPOINTED

      Search committees have been appointed for senior positions now 
      open at Columbia, Barnard and Teachers College.

      At Columbia, searches are underway for executive vice president 
      for administration and for vice president for finance. Both 
      positions are currently held by Joseph P. Mullinix, who leaves 
      Columbia Sept. 7 for a similar position at Yale.

      The committee for executive vice president for administration is 
      chaired by David Auston, dean of the School of Engineering and 
      Applied Science. Other members are: Raymond Horton, professor of 
      business; Joan Leiman, deputy vice president, health sciences; 
      Lance Liebman, dean of the School of Law; Lee MacAdams, student, 
      Columbia College; Vicky Prince, deputy vice president for 
      administration, and Nick Turro, professor of chemistry.

      The committee for vice president for finance is chaired by David 
      Hirsh, chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular 
      biophysics. Other members are: Caroline Walker Bynum, dean of the 
      School of General Studies and associate vice president for arts 
      and sciences; Thomas L. Chrystie, Trustee emeritus; Jonathan Cole, 
      Provost; Meyer Feldberg, dean of the Graduate School of Business; 
      Steven Friedman, chairman of the Trustees' investment steering 
      committee; John Morgan, professor of mathematics; Herbert Pardes, 
      vice president for health sciences and dean of the Faculty of 
      Medicine, and Lionel Pincus, chairman of the Trustees' finance 
      committee.

      At Barnard, Ellen V. Futter steps down as president Oct. 1. 
      Kathryn Rodgers will become acting president until a new president 
      is appointed. Helene L. Kaplan, former chairwoman of the Trustees, 
      will head the search committee. Other members will be announced 
      shortly.

      At Teachers College, P. Michael Timpane announced last spring that 
      he would step down next June after ten years as president.

      Lambros Comitas, Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and 
      Education. and Thomas W. Eavans, chairman of the Trustees, will 
      head the search committee. Other members include: R. Gary Bridge, 
      associate professor of psychology and education; Isobel Contento, 
      professor of nutrition and education; James E. Corter, associate 
      professor of statistics and education; John P. Fanselow, professor 
      of language and education; Antoinette M. Gentile, professor of 
      psychology and education; L. Lee Knefelkamp, professor of higher 
      education, and Karen Kepler Zumwalt, professor of education at the 
      Evenden Foundation. Trustee members include: Antonia M. Grumbach, 
      Ruth L. Gottesman, John Klingenstein, Enid W. Morse, Ronald A. 
      Nicholson and Barbara A. Thacher.