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Committee names 6th provost candidate

Cougar News Staff

UH's provost search committee named Bernadette Gray-Little, executive associate provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as its sixth candidate for academic leader of the University and the UH System on Friday.

Gray-Little is responsible for academic, research and public service programs at UNC and works with the provost in budget and funding decisions. She began working as a psychology professor at UNC in 1971.

Last spring, Gray-Little was a finalist for dean of Emory College, the arts and sciences division of Emory University in Atlanta and for provost at the University of New Hampshire. Both universities selected in-house candidates for those positions.

In interviews and statements relating to those jobs, Gray-Little -- a graduate of Maywood College in Scranton, Pa., and St. Louis University in Missouri -- said she supported involving undergraduate students in research and believed properly equipping faculty members to do their jobs is essential to developing top-notch academic programs.

Gray-Little is now among the candidates for dean of UNC's College of Arts and Sciences.

She will have the chance to discuss her qualifications and field questions from the UHS community in a forum at 4 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Waldorf Room at the University Hilton.

Candidates Luanna Meyer and Cristina González participated in similar forums last week. The next scheduled provost candidate forum, for Richard Edwards -- also of UNC -- will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the University Hilton's Shamrock Room.

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