Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 16, 1990 TAG: 9006160364
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: DANIEL HOWES HIGHER EDUCATION WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Casteen also has decided that the search for a permanent provost, suspended last year when President Robert O'Neil stepped down, will begin anew and that interim Provost Hugh Kelly will remain in the post for another year.
"I am delighted that Hugh has agreed to serve at least an additional year," Casteen said in a statement Friday.
"He has made outstanding contributions in laying out university goals and it is very important that we take advantage of his leadership for as long as possible."
Kelly will be joined in the senior Cabinet by Leonard Sandridge, senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Don Detmer, vice president for health sciences. The three-man group will meet weekly with Casteen.
Meanwhile, the search continues for a new vice president for development and university relations, a post vacant for one year.
The new structure replaces one instituted last year in which O'Neil assumed primarily external duties - fund raising and legislative affairs - while the provost oversaw all academic issues, including the deans of UVa's eight schools.
Within Casteen's reorganized administration, all vice presidents - as well as the athletic director - will report to the president. And Sandridge's responsibilities will be expanded to include oversight of administration, student affairs and athletics.
Casteen, a former UVa admissions dean and state secretary of education, said after his election in March that he intended to address, and likely change, the university's administrative structure before assuming his duties Aug. 1.
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