{"id":1728,"date":"2012-02-29T16:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T23:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2013-12-10T15:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:51:20","slug":"committees-named-for-ad-basketball-coach-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/committees-named-for-ad-basketball-coach-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Committees named for AD, basketball coach searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two NAU committees have been named to work with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkersearch.com\/\">Parker Executive Search\u00a0<\/a>to select a men\u2019s basketball coach and an athletic director.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Vice President<strong>\u00a0MJ McMahon<\/strong>\u00a0said the search firm will narrow down a list of candidates for each position and then hand over the interview process to each of the committees. A representative from Parker was on campus Monday to meet with various NAU groups to discuss university values, commitment and expectations.<\/p>\n<p>McMahon will chair the committee to find a replacement for Athletic Director\u00a0<strong>Jim Fallis<\/strong>, who has announced that he will not seek an extension of his contract, which expires June 30. Another committee has been formed to find a replacement for interim head basketball coach\u00a0<strong>Dave Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the athletic director search committee include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MJ McMahon<\/strong>, executive vice president, chair<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shadow Armfield<\/strong>, assistant professor, College of Education, chair of the Intercollegiate Athletics Committee<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rick Brandel<\/strong>, dean of students<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Camacho<\/strong>, special assistant to the president for diversity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom DeStefano<\/strong>, faculty athletics representative<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kelly Kasprzyk<\/strong>, Flagstaff Realtor, Lumberjack Athletic Association board member<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pam Lowie<\/strong>, assistant athletic director\/academics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason Roundy<\/strong>, assistant athletic director\/development<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mitch Strohman<\/strong>, Lumberjack announcer, LAA board member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members of the head basketball coach search committee include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mason Gerety<\/strong>, vice president for Advancement, chair<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Acker<\/strong>, professor, mechanical engineering<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Amundson<\/strong>, professor, history<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Camacho<\/strong>, special assistant to the president for diversity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sandra Kowalski<\/strong>, director, University Marketing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kimberly Ott<\/strong>, city of Flagstaff<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steve Shaff<\/strong>, assistant athletic director\/media relations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beth Vechinski<\/strong>, associate athletic director for external operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Final decisions will be made by President\u00a0<strong>John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0after consultations with the search committees. According to McMahon, NAU hopes to hire a new athletic director within eight weeks, with the hiring of a basketball coach to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/committees-named-for-ad-basketball-coach-searches\/\">Two NAU committees have been named to work with\u00a0Parker Executive Search\u00a0to select a men\u2019s basketball coach and an athletic director. Executive Vice President\u00a0MJ McMahon\u00a0said the search firm will narrow down a list of candidates for each position and then hand over the interview process to each of the committees. A representative from Parker was on&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}