Presidential Search Update from UA Board of Trustees

PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH UPDATE – COMMITTEE RECEIVING APPLICATIONS NOW

Following consultation with the Ursuline Central Province and extensive research and discussion, the Ursuline Board of Trustees voted unanimously in December to assemble a Search Committee to evaluate candidates for the next President of Ursuline Academy New Orleans. This Search Committee includes:

• Judge Nancy Amato Konrad, Ursuline Academy Class of 1959, Search Committee Chair
• Kerry Coleman, Ursuline Academy Class of 1966, Ursuline Board of Trustees
• Marc Ehrhardt, parent, Ursuline Board of Trustees
• Glenn Gennaro, educator and academic administrator
• Sister Madonna O’Hara, OSU, Ursuline Board of Trustees and Director, Office of Stewardship, Ursuline Sisters Central Province
• Verna Landrieu, community leader, Ursuline Academy Class of 1950, Ursuline Academy Distinguished Alumna
• James MacLaren, parent, Dean, Newcomb-Tulane College
• Judy Mollere, Ursuline Academy Class of 1966, Ursuline Academy Elementary School Assistant Principal
• Judge Monique Morial, Ursuline Academy Class of 1988, Ursuline Academy Alumnae Association President
• Sister Margaret Ann Moser, OSU, Ursuline Board of Trustees, President of Ursuline Academy Dallas
• Eugene Priestley, parent, Chairman, Ursuline Academy Board of Trustees
• Jacqueline Smethurst, consultant and educator , former member Ursuline Academy Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees has empowered this Search Committee to identify a candidate according to a criterion that embraces our commitment to academic excellence in a nurturing environment, the spiritual formation of our students, our long-range plans for our State St. campus and our belief in Serviam. Once identified, the Board of Trustees and Ursuline Sisters Central Province Provincial Team will have final approval of the selected candidate.

During its first meeting earlier this month, the Search Committee outlined a framework for identifying and evaluating potential candidates. The Search Committee recommended – and the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees agreed – that a search consultant be hired to assist in conducting a national search to identify potential Presidential candidates. Efforts are underway to evaluate appropriate search firms, with the Committee expected to have recommendations to the Board of Trustees in the coming weeks.

We expect and encourage candidates in New Orleans, throughout Louisiana and across the nation to apply for this position. Interested candidates should submit qualifications and interest to the Search Committee Chair, Judge Nancy Konrad by email at nak1941@yahoo.com.