Is the U. of Idaho’s President Leaving? and Other Presidential News

According to an article in today’s Idaho Statesman, the University of Idaho’s president, Timothy P. White, has informed the university’s governing board that he is being wooed by another institution. No word at this time on who’s recruiting him.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison has released the names of nine of the 55 applicants who applied for the job of chancellor, but one of them — Jorge V. José, vice president for research at the State University of New York at Buffalo — had asked that his name be kept secret, Paul Fain reports on The Chronicle’s News Blog. Uh-oh!
Meanwhile, the University of Oregon’s longtime president, David B. Frohnmayer, has said he will retire in June 2009, The Register-Guard, a daily newspaper out of Eugene, Ore., reports.
According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, Rick Perry, the Texas governor, thinks John Montford, a former state senator who’s currently a senior vice president at AT&T, would be an ideal choice for the job of University of Texas system chancellor. Montford was chancellor of the Texas Tech University system from 1996-2001.
Edna Mora Szymanski, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maine at Orono, will become president of Minnesota State University at Moorhead on July 1. See a system press release for more details.
Western Washington University’s governing board has picked Bruce Shepard, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, as its next president, a WWU press release confirms. He’ll replace the longtime president Karen W. Morse, who is retiring in September.