PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE More coverage of President Doti’s announcement is on page 5.
It’s Time for a Change You may have heard the recent news that I announced my intention to step down as president of Chapman University, effective Aug. 31, 2016. While I still love my job, I think it’s time for a change. I’m delighted that Chancellor Daniele Struppa will become Chapman’s 13th president. I have great confidence in Daniele’s vision and his leadership skills, which have been recognized by the faculty and the Board of Trustees, who formally endorsed him as presidentdesignate early last year. Daniele possesses the kind of ethical values that tend to be inherent in successful leaders. He treats all people with respect and dignity, a value that is essential to Chapman’s identity. I know these things because Daniele and I have worked as full partners together over the last 10 years. Many of Chapman’s most significant accomplishments were done not by me alone but rather by Daniele and me working as a team with an incredibly talented senior staff. That team will stay in place. Finding Daniele’s successor as chancellor will not be an easy task. A campus committee will be assisted by a professional search firm in identifying candidates who understand Chapman’s ethos and are as excited as we are about what our learning community can become. During this last year of my presidency, I am particularly excited about opening the Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco Center for the Arts as well as completing the critically important initial phase of our Harry and Diane Rinker Health Science Campus. We also will
Board of Trustees OFFICERS David A. Janes, Sr. Chair Wylie A. Aitken Vice Chair Joann Leatherby Vice Chair David E.I. Pyott Vice Chair Scott Chapman Secretary Zelma M. Allred Assistant Secretary TRUSTEES Donna Ford Attallah ’61 Raj S. Bhathal James P. Burra Michael J. Carver Phillip H. Case Akin Ceylan ’90 Irving M. Chase Hazem H. Chehabi Stephen J. Cloobeck Jerome W. Cwiertnia Zeinab H. Dabbah (JD ’12) Kristina Dodge James Emmi Dale E. Fowler ’58 Barry Goldfarb Stan Harrelson Roger C. Hobbs
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William K. Hood Mark Chapin Johnson ’05 Jennifer L. Keller Parker S. Kennedy Joe E. Kiani Charles D. Martin James V. Mazzo Ann D. Moskowitz Sebastian Paul Musco Frank O’Bryan Harry S. Rinker James B. Roszak The Honorable Loretta Sanchez ’82 Mohindar S. Sandhu James Ronald Sechrist Ronald M. Simon Ronald E. Soderling Emily Crean Vogler Karen R. Wilkinson ’69 David W. Wilson EMERITUS CHAIRS The Honorable George L. Argyros ’59 Doy B. Henley Donald E. Sodaro EMERITUS TRUSTEES Richard Bertea Lynn Hirsch Booth Arlene R. Craig J. Ben Crowell
be planning our new Center for Science and Technology, with its groundbreaking scheduled for next April. Our progress with these transformational projects, along with our important advances in scholarship and research, illuminates the remarkable momentum taking place everywhere at Chapman. Following the transition, I look forward to returning to teaching and research as well as helping Daniele and serving the University I cherish in any way I can. It hardly seems possible that almost 25 years have passed since the Board of Trustees invited me to serve as Chapman’s president. We have accomplished much working together, and we have laid a strong foundation for even more significant accomplishments under a great new leader. We must, and I am confident we will, continue to make our University’s intellectual environment ever more vibrant, exciting and innovative. Regards,
Jim Doti
Leslie N. Duryea Robert A. Elliott David C. Henley Jack B. Lindquist Randall R. McCardle ’58 (M.A.’66) Cecilia Presley Barry Rodgers Richard R. Schmid R. David Threshie EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES James E. Blalock (JD ’09) Barbara Eidson Reverend LaTaunya Bynum ’76 Reverend Don Dewey James L. Doti Kelsey C. Flewellen ’05 Judith A. Garfi-Partridge Reverend Dayna Kinkade Linda D. Ruth Reverend Felix Villanueva Reverend Denny Williams
Board of Governors OFFICERS Judith A. Garfi-Partridge Chair Melinda M. Masson Executive Vice Chair Thomas E. Malloy Vice Chair Douglas E. Willits ’72 Secretary
GOVERNORS George Adams, Jr. Marilyn Alexander Lula F. Halfacre Andre Lisa Argyros ’07 Margaret Baldwin Deborah Bridges Brenda Carver Eva Chen Paul A. Cook Ronn C. Cornelius Suzanne Ellingson Kathleen M. Gardarian W. Gregory Geiger Steve Greinke Galen Grillo (EMBA ’13) Rebecca A. Hall ’96 Sinan Kanatsiz ’97 (M.A. ’00) Elim Kay ’09 Scott A. Kisting John L. Kokulis Dennis Kuhl Suki McCardle Michael Penn (JD ’04) Betty Mower Potalivo James F. Wilson EMERITUS GOVERNORS Marta S. Bhathal Kathleen A. Bronstein Gary E. Liebl Jean H. Macino
Richard D. Marconi Jerrel T. Richards EX OFFICIO GOVERNORS Sheryl A. Bourgeois James L. Doti
President’s Cabinet Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos George L. Argyros, Jr. ’89, (JD ’01) Julianne Argyros Joyce Brandman Heidi Cortese Sherman Lawrence K. Dodge Onnolee B. Elliott (M.A. ’64) Paul Folino Douglas K. Freeman Marie Gray Frank P. Greinke Gavin S. Herbert Shelley Hoss Steeve Kay General William Lyon The Honorable Milan Panic Lord Swarj Paul James H. Randall The Honorable Ed Royce Susan Samueli Ralph Stern David Stone Alan L. True