
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 8, 1993                   TAG: 9312080127
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
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PRESIDENT-SEARCH REPORT ON TECH BOARD AGENDA

A status report from the presidential search committee is on the agenda for a specially called meeting of Virginia Tech's board of visitors to be held Thursday.

"We need some further direction from the board," said Henry Dekker, chairman of the search committee and a member of the board.

The meeting comes a week after the search committee drew up a profile of the desirable candidate to replace James McComas, who resigned in September after he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Interim President Paul Torgersen, long-time dean of the College of Engineering, has served since Oct. 1. A group of prominent engineering alumni, known as the Committee of 100, is lobbying the board for Torgersen's permanent appointment. 18.

In addition to the search, the board will consider settlement of a lawsuit and the university's proposed plans for coping with possible state budget cuts. Gov. Douglas Wilder is expected to release before Christmas his final budget, including budget cuts to higher education that could be 10 percent or more.

According to Dekker, board meetings added to the usual schedule are unusual. "Particularly those concerning budgets have been out of turn."

by CNB