THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, October 15, 1994 TAG: 9410150208
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: CHAPEL HILL, N.C. LENGTH: Short : 42 lines
Patricia A. Sullivan was elected the first female chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro on Friday and told the UNC Board of Governors she had dreamed of the job.
A biologist, Sullivan comes to North Carolina from Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, where she was vice president for academic affairs. She is a former dean of faculty at Salem College in Winston-Salem.
UNC-Greensboro was founded as a college for women in 1891 and began admitting men as students in 1963. UNCG has 12,094 students, more than 100 undergraduate majors and 13 doctoral programs.
A native of Staten Island, N.Y., Sullivan said she has been attracted to North Carolina since she visited the state fair with a friend years ago.
A job like the chancellor's post ``is something I have thought about, planned for and actually dreamed about,'' she said.
She begins her job officially on Jan. 1 at a salary of $129,210, taking over from interim chancellor Debra Stewart. Stewart was appointed after William Moran stepped down from the post.
UNC System President C.D. Spangler Jr. recommended Sullivan to the board.
Sullivan and Dr. Martin Anisman, president of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, were recommended to Spangler by a search committee that considered 129 applicants.
Sullivan is the second active female chancellor at one of the 16 institutions in the UNC System, joining Patsy Reed of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. An early head of the North Carolina School of the Arts was a woman, but until Reed was named earlier this year all chancellor jobs were held by men. by CNB